Hello, t am trying to create native driver for subj. I used dx200.c as my inspiration. Everything is working fine for me but !!!!!! When i connect camera & power up driver is initialized thru probe function and new device major/minor (180/96) is added to the system. So i decide make a simple test. I wrote simple userspace program which tries open new device ( i made node in /dev for it using mknod of course ). In this code i only use fopen and fclose. Fisrt time when i run user space program it looks ok. fopen succed file handle pointer is not NULL !! But function fclose which is called after fopen fails !!! and in syslog appears folowing message : Sep 16 12:46:24 ak47 kernel: VFS: Close: file count is 0 . Next time when i try to execute same code it fails on fopen with SIGSEGV. What i am doing wrong ? Any suggestions ? Thanx & Bye Sam static int canon_camera_open(struct inode *inode,struct file *file) { struct canon_camera_state *camera = NULL; int value; int subminor; MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; down( &state_table_mutex ); subminor = MINOR(inode->i_rdev) - USB_CAMERA_MINOR_BASE; if ( subminor <0 || subminor > MAX_CAMERAS || !(camera=minor_data[subminor])) { up( &state_table_mutex ); MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; return -ENODEV; } down( &camera->sem ); up( &state_table_mutex ); if ( camera->buffer ) { MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; value = -EBUSY; goto done; } if (!(camera->buffer = (char *)kmalloc (MAX_PACKET_SIZE,GFP_KERNEL))) { MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; value = -ENOMEM; goto done; } dbg("open %d",subminor); file->private_data = camera; done: up( &camera->sem ); return value; } My configuration: Kernel 2.4.9 on RH7.1 Toshiba Statellite Pro 43000 series with 192MB Ram. Syslog: Sep 16 12:31:48 ak47 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver cpwsa20 Sep 16 12:31:48 ak47 kernel: cpwsa20.c: v0.0.1:USB Camera Driver for Canon Powershot A20 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: Manufacturer: Canon Inc. Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: Product: PowerShot A20 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: cpwsa20.c: Numconf=1, NumInterfaces=1 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: cpwsa20.c: Class=255, Subclass=255, Endpoints=3 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: cpwsa20.c: inEP=1, outEP=2, miscEP=3 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 kernel: cpwsa20.c: USB camera #0 coneceted, major/minor 180/96 Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 /sbin/hotplug: arguments (usb) env (PWD=/etc/hotplug HOSTNAME=ak47 DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/001/002 ACTION=add DEBUG=kernel MACHTYPE=i386-redhat-linux-gnu OLDPWD=/ DEVFS=/proc/bus/usb TYPE=255/255/255 SHLVL=1 SHELL=/bin/bash HOSTTYPE=i386 OSTYPE=linux-gnu HOME=/ TERM=dumb PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin PRODUCT=4a9/304e/1 _=/usr/bin/env) Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 /sbin/hotplug: invoke /etc/hotplug/usb.agent Sep 16 12:33:23 ak47 /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Modprobe and setup cpwsa20 for USB product 4a9/304e/1 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel