[8444] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: MKDEV and major numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Mar 21 19:55:18 2000
To: wudragon2@yahoo.com (Stanley Wu)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:50:16 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (scsi)
In-Reply-To: <20000321162116.15236.qmail@web3504.mail.yahoo.com> from "Stanley Wu" at Mar 21, 2000 08:21:16 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> 1. Is there a kernel function call, from the driver,
> equivalent to "mknod" command?
No
> 2. How can I ensure the /dev/XXXn device remain
> consistent throughout reboots? It appears to me if I
> have handful of devices, some of them are powered off
> during reboot; I could be dealing with a different
> device while /dev/XXXn is the same
There are user side tools that can query the scsi bus and build link farms
by device id so you have constant names. Devfs also deals with this, your
mknod question and more, but is experimental.
Alan
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