2005-12-16 14:26:41

by yogeshwar sonawane

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Subject: driver loading during boot

On 12/16/05, Qi Yong <[email protected]> wrote:
> yogeshwar sonawane wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Long time back u helped me about udev. i tried to write a rule to
> > create one device file. its working fine. thanks for that.
>
>
> Bother to CC lkml? Keep both lkml and me in the recipients please.

ok .
>
> >
> > Then i am not able to autoload my driver after reboots?
> > actually this device file will get created only when that module is
> > loaded. And i want both loading as well as device file creation to
> > happen on boot? After googling i got that we can write modprobe for
> > particular driver in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. But this is the correct way?
> > or there is some other way?
> >
> > Actually where is the information for loading of drivers during boot
> > is stored?
> >
> > Kindly help me.
> >
> > Yogeshwar
> >
> > On 10/28/05, *Coywolf Qi Hunt* <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:29:33PM +0530, yogeshwar sonawane wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > I am trying a pseudo character driver. But after reboot, my device
> > > file from /dev directory is getting deleted. This is for 2.6 kernel.
> > > Is there a way to create a file permanently which will be not
> > deleted
> > > after reboot? Earlier in 2.4, this was not the case.
> >
> > udev?
> >
> >
>
>