udev makes /dev/raw1394, but no module

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 25 22:49:38 UTC 2005


Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:36:48 -0800, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>udev should be loading the modules, correct? But why is it creating the 
>>/dev entries if it's not loading the modules?  Is this a feature, or a 
>>bug? Does udev only create the dev entries, and the user is supposed to 
>>load the modules?
> 
> 
> Most likely the modules fail the initialization and return from their
> probe() with an error.
> 

Maybe, but modprobe raw1394 works, and does not return any error. In 
fact, the way I've hacked this is just to modprobe the 1394 modules in 
rc.local, which works just fine.

sean




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