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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:16:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        ravi <ravi.nanjundappa@ap.sony.com>
Cc:        Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Subject:   Re: Regarding mknod
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040804080718.4579A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <1091608277.4760.68.camel@ravin>

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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@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@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 the load target in the makefile is outdated and the mknod command should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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