On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:01:26 -, Kim Chan said:
To my understanding, device file is needed when a user program wants to
access the device and we don't need to generate the device file for us to use
the device in kernel. Is my understanding correct?
Right. You don't need to generate the
?
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Subject : Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:25 PM, 김찬
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Subject : Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:25 PM, 김찬 c...@etri.re.kr wrote:
Hi,
This should be a basic question.
Does the regisetr_chrdev function make the device file under /dev directory?
I am
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Subject: Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kim Chan c...@etri.re.kr wrote:
Yeah, I know mknod command. I just wanted to know if the
register_chrdev makes the file or not.
It doesn't. Also note
Hi,
This should be a basic question.
Does the regisetr_chrdev function make the device file under /dev directory?
I am running linux on our embedded system and inside vcs_init, register_chrdev
is called as below.
int __init vcs_init(void)
{
unsigned int i;
if
On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:25 PM, 김찬 c...@etri.re.kr wrote:
Hi,
This should be a basic question.
Does the regisetr_chrdev function make the device file under /dev directory?
I am running linux on our embedded system and inside vcs_init,
register_chrdev is called as below.
int __init
