From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
BAREBOX <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] commands: add mknod command
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:21:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeec9756-7475-4197-8540-a36c9155e95b@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251209-devfs-v2-4-62ae16698cff@pengutronix.de>
Hi,
On 12/9/25 1:51 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Add a mknod command. This is intended for testing/debugging purposes as
> normally device special nodes are created automatically in devfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Single nitpick below:
> +static int do_mknod(int argc, char *argv[])
> +{
> + const char *filename, *cdevname;
> + umode_t mode;
> +
> + if (argc < 4)
argc != 4 to reduce misuse.
> + return COMMAND_ERROR_USAGE;
> +
> + filename = argv[1];
> + if (!strcmp(argv[2], "b"))
> + mode = S_IFBLK;
> + else if (!strcmp(argv[2], "c"))
> + mode = S_IFCHR;
> + else
> + return COMMAND_ERROR_USAGE;
> +
> + cdevname = argv[3];
> +
> + return mknod(filename, mode, cdevname);
> +}
> +
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_START(mknod)
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("make a device special node.")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("usage: mknod <name> c|b <cdevname>")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Create a device special node named <name> directing")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("to cdev <cdevname>. This can either be a block (b) or")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("character (c) device.")
> +BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_END
> +
> +BAREBOX_CMD_START(mknod)
> + .cmd = do_mknod,
> + BAREBOX_CMD_DESC("make device nodes")
> + BAREBOX_CMD_OPTS("NAME TYPE CDEVNAME")
> + BAREBOX_CMD_GROUP(CMD_GRP_FILE)
> + BAREBOX_CMD_HELP(cmd_mknod_help)
> +BAREBOX_CMD_END
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-15 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-09 12:51 [PATCH v2 00/13] fs: Use device special nodes for devfs Sascha Hauer
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] fs: devfs-core: add devfs_create_link_node() Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:14 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] storage-by-alias: drop fake cdev Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:15 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] fs: implement mknod Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:19 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] commands: add mknod command Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:21 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] fs: ramfs: add device file support Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:22 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] cdev: add cdev_size() helper Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:22 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] fs: fix st_size for device files Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:24 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] fs: retire devfs as filesystem Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:25 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] fs: include cdevname in struct stat Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:25 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] fs: stat_print: get cdevname from stat Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:26 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] common: cdev-alias: rename struct Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:27 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] fs: replace cdev links with aliases Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:31 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-15 12:17 ` Sascha Hauer
2025-12-09 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] ls: use ~0 for FILE_SIZE_STREAM Sascha Hauer
2025-12-15 11:32 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-12-15 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] fs: Use device special nodes for devfs Sascha Hauer
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