usb devices

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 05:31, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
>
>  What are the device names for the usb ports and are makenode
> commands needed to activate them?

usb ports don't have names, at least not in the way /dev/tty* 
and /dev/lp* have names. The devices themselves are enumerated deep 
down in /sys

usb is hotpluggable and the device node should not exist till the 
device is plugged in, so you don't mknod them. The tool you want is 
udev

Briefly, the kernel detects a new device on the usb bus and loads the 
module for it, then calls a userspace program which 
consults /etc/udev/* to create the node in /dev. Then your apps can 
use the node.

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Alan McKinnon
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