udev: Directory for custom device nodes.

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Tue Jan 25 14:49:57 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:38 +0100, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> Suppose I want to package the mga_vid driver, I'll use :
> /etc/makedev.d/mga_vid      # /dev/mga_vid definition
> /etc/sysconfig/init-dev.d/mga_vid.dev    # create /dev/mga_vid
> /etc/sysconfig/init-dev.d/mga_vid.module   # load mga_vid
> /etc/modprobe.conf.d/mga_vid.conf    # configure mga_vid
> /etc/security/console.perms.d/mga_vid    # pam_console configuration

Does it seem utterly _pathetic_ to anyone else but me that there would
have to be 5 different places to add information about a particular
hardware device, just to get it to load and work?  Just a point of
observation.

Dan




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