On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:55:17AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so rather than the canonical combination of cdev_init() and > cdev_add(), this appears to register the pre-defined DSP56K major > number, then goes straight to registering the driver with sysfs. > > is this now an alternative way of registering character drivers, if > you want to register them with sysfs as well? as i read it, > device_create() will create the /dev file so is this just a newer way > to register character drivers?
device_create will create the /dev file, but you have to have registered that major/minor number before calling it, it does not do the registering for you. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
