Creating devices with mdev (automically)

[Bjørn Forsman]

2009/4/8 Manuel Sahm <Manuel.Sahm at feig.de>

> Hello,
>
> I have written an gpio kernel driver.
> Now I have to create a /dev/gpio/xy Character device with mknod for each
> pin.
>
> Is it possible to do this with mdev automatically when I load my driver
> with insmod ?
>

>
> Thank you very much
> best regards
>
> Manuel
>
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Hi,

I just faced the same question myself (how to get mdev to automatically
create device files when loading modules) and found busybox/docs/mdev.txt to
be quite helpful.

Regards,
Bjørn Forsman
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