Regarding mknod

ravi ravi.nanjundappa at ap.sony.com
Wed Aug 4 21:20:10 PDT 2004


No. The device node that I'm trying to create is not appearing.
Please tell me the solution .


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:46, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, ravi wrote:
> 
> > Can u tell me the solution for this ?
> 
> In FreeBSD 5.x, devfs will automatically create devices as specified in
> make_dev(), being unable to run mknod(8) should not be a problem.  Is
> your
> device node appearing?
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee
> Research
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:17, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > In message <1091602736.4760.64.camel at ravin>, ravi writes:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >If I run "make load " from /usr/share/examples/kld/cdev/module
> > > directory
> > > >then I'm getting the following error message .
> > > >
> > > ># make load 
> > > >mknod /dev/cdev c 32 0 
> > > >mknod: /dev/cdev : No such file or directory 
> > > >*****Error code 1
> > > >
> > > >Even if I execute the " mknod /dev/cdev c 32 0 " command at the
> > > terminal
> > > >I'm getting the same error message .
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >What is the reason for this ?
> > > >Please tell me the solution as well ..
> > > 
> > > the load target in the makefile is outdated and the mknod command
> should
> > > simply be removed.
> > 
> > 
> 



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