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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] EDAC and the sysfs
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:18:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117171856.GB27534@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117172053.87207.qmail@web50112.mail.yahoo.com>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:20:53AM -0800, Doug Thompson wrote:
> > But you can just probably use a udev rule to
> > initialize your things
> > properly, that's what all of the distros are now
> > using.
> 
> Ok. That's another area for me to research. edac does
> not have any /dev/ entries, just the files and
> controls previous mentioned. 
> 
> So, from your comment then, udev has some mechanism to
> set controls in sysfs?

udev gets called whenever you add a kobject to the system.  You can then
do whatever you want in udev when this happens.  As an example, on one
distro, when a bluetooth device is created by the kernel, a bluetooth
startup script is run by udev.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14 22:14 Doug Thompson
2005-11-14 22:31 ` Greg KH
2005-11-15  0:30   ` Dave Jones
2005-11-15 17:24     ` Greg KH
2005-11-15  0:47   ` Doug Thompson
2005-11-15  1:12     ` Doug Thompson
2005-11-15 17:25     ` Greg KH
2005-11-16  0:26       ` Doug Thompson
2005-11-17  7:05         ` Greg KH
2005-11-17 17:20           ` Doug Thompson
2005-11-17 17:18             ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-17 18:32               ` Kay Sievers

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