1. Introduction to device management in Linux By Unnikrishnan [email_address]

4. How they are doing this ?

8. Udev ( cont... ) Kernel exports the informations to sysfs # cat /sys/block/sdb/size 7856128 # cat /sys/block/sdb/removable 1 # cat /sys/block/sdb/uevent MAJOR=8 MINOR=16 DEVTYPE=disk #

9. Udev ( cont... ) Udev creates the device node using the major and minor number got from the kernel and loads the device driver using the modalias information # mknod /dev/sdc b 8 20 # ls -l /dev/sdc brw-r--r-- 1 root root 8, 20 2009-12-20 10:35 /dev/sdc

10. Udev and modalias pci:v000011ABd00004363sv00001179sd0000FF10bc02sc00i00 V :- 000011AB D :- 00004363 sv and sd are subsystem version for both vendor and device. The best place to find the vendor/product from their id for a PCI device is http://www.pcidatabase.com/ . # grep -i 11AB /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/modules.alias | grep 4363 alias pci:v000011ABd00004363sv*sd*bc*sc*i* sky2

14. Device information file <deviceinfo version=&quot;0.2&quot;> <device> <match key=&quot;@storage.physical_device:info.bus&quot; string=&quot;usb&quot;> <match key=&quot;@storage.physical_device:usb.vendor_id&quot; int=&quot;0x05dc&quot;> <match key=&quot;@storage.physical_device:usb.product_id&quot; int=&quot;0x0002&quot;> <merge key=&quot;storage.drive_type&quot; type=&quot;string&quot;>compact_flash</merge> </match> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>

15. HAL DB The system command lshal will list the HAL DB udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_da6ed050_2beb_4a3e_b446_8eb8bb81b149' block.device = '/dev/sda5' (string) block.is_volume = true (bool) block.major = 8 (0x8) (int) block.minor = 5 (0x5) (int) block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1237G_87FITJ8IT' (string) info.capabilities = {'volume', 'block'} (string list) info.category = 'volume' (string)

16. Other way to get the device info # hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_da6ed050_2beb_4a3e_b446_8eb8bb81b149 --key volume.fstype ext4

17. Namespace / properties namespace properties info bus, udi, persistent, capabilities, product, vendor, parent, locked usb_device device_class, speed_bcd, serial, product, vendor, host, bus, target, lun block device, major, minor, is_volume, no_partitions volume is_mounted, mount_point, fstype, label, uuid, block_size, size, is_partition storage bus, drive_type, removable, hotpluggable, requires_eject media_check_enabled, automount_enabled_hint storage.cdrom cdr, cdrw, dvd, dvdr, ..., read_speed, write_speed storage.policy.default mount_option.*, mount_root camera access_method, libgphoto2.support

18. Desktop application and HAL HAL exports all the device informations to desktop application like GNOME volume manager That helps it to mount the device to the file system.

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