linux mdev -s没有运行,mdev详解

一、概述

mdev是busybox提供的一个工具，用在嵌入式系统中，相当于简化版的udev，作用是在系统启动和热插拔或动态加载驱动程序时，

自动创建设备节点。文件系统中的/dev目录下的设备节点都是由mdev创建的。

在加载驱动过程中，根据驱动程序，在/dev下自动创建设备节点。

以下内容摘自busybox-1.23.1的mdev.txt文件：

Mdev has two primary uses: initial population and dynamic updates.  Both

require sysfs support in the kernel and have it mounted at /sys.  For dynamic

updates, you also need to have hotplugging enabled in your kernel.

Here's a typical code snippet from the init script:

[0] mount -t proc proc /proc

[1] mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys

[2] echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug

[3] mdev -s

Alternatively, without procfs the above becomes:

[1] mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys

[2] sysctl -w kernel.hotplug=/sbin/mdev

[3] mdev -s

Of course, a more "full" setup would entail executing this before the previous

code snippet:

[4] mount -t tmpfs -o size=64k,mode=0755 tmpfs /dev

[5] mkdir /dev/pts

[6] mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts

The simple explanation here is that [1] you need to have /sys mounted before

executing mdev.  Then you [2] instruct the kernel to execute /sbin/mdev whenever

a device is added or removed so that the device node can be created or destroyed.

Then you [3] seed /dev with all the device nodes that were created while the system

was booting.

For the "full" setup, you want to [4] make sure /dev is a tmpfs filesystem

(assuming you're running out of flash).  Then you want to [5] create the

/dev/pts mount point and finally [6] mount the devpts filesystem on it.

二、用法

这篇博文所涉及到的用法很简单：

1、在/etc/init.d/rcS脚本里有“mdev -s”

解释：在系统启动时，通过执行“mdev -s”扫描/sys/class和/sys/block，在目录中查找dev文件。例如：/sys/class/tty/tty0/dev，

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