How to find out if kernel or udev created a device node in Android

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Jun 8 11:23:42 EDT 2016


On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 05:39:39PM +0530, Munagala Naresh wrote:
> Hi team,
> 
> Is there a way to find if kernel or udev created a device node (@ /dev/xxxx) in
> Android?
> 
> I searched in the internet and "udevadm" can be used to finf it but this is not
> available in Android. Please let me know if there is any alternative way to
> find it.

On Android, neither the kernel, nor udev, create device nodes, sorry.
That's up to a different piece of userspace code that is Android
specific.

hope this helps,

greg k-h



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