Creating /dev links to dynamic devices
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Oct 25 03:52:33 UTC 2009
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> devfs.conf allows creating static device links:
>
> link acd0 cdrom
>
> This only runs on devfs startup, so it's useless for creating a link to a
> dynamic device.
>
> I guess I misread your original post. Why do you want to add actions based on the creation of the uscanner node?
In this case, so I can run scanbuttond on creation of uscanner0. Yes,
that could be done on detection of the vendor and product IDs and using
the ugen device for this example.
But it seems to show that either the ability to dynamically create
"static device links" isn't there, or I just haven't found it yet.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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