what is the precise udev event that handles miscdevices?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:43:05AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   i can trivially create misc character devices, and i know special
> > device files for them will automatically show up under /dev, but what
> > is the precise udev event/rule that comes into play for this?
>
> There isn't one.
>
> Gee, this is going to be easy  :)

  don't get smug. :-) i had sort of concluded there was no actual udev
rule i could point at, so it's just the case that udev processes those
events internally? is this written down anywhere? everyone happily
explains how misc devices get their /dev file automatically, but no
one i've seen goes that extra step to explain how that happens.

rday

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