How to export linux.device_file to hal-manager

Nicolas Trangez eikke at eikke.com
Mon Sep 1 05:57:59 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:50 +0200, Frank Aune wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I see that serveral hardware devices on my system export its linux.device_file 
> to HAL, however I can't figure out how to make a kernel driver Im working on 
> export this info to sysfs.
> 
> More specifically I have a memory type device PC Card with a custom kernel 
> driver, which creates a device node in /dev for IO communication. I'd like to 
> export info about the configured device node to sysfs.
> 
> Is there some good reference information on how to export details to sysfs, in 
> order to make this available through HAL?

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

Nicolas



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