Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:18:56 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] EDAC and the sysfs |
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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,
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