linux-kernel - Re: How to get /dev entry created automaticly for dynamic major number?

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:37:02 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Markku Savela <msa@...h.iki.fi>
cc:	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to get /dev entry created automaticly for dynamic major
 number?

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Markku Savela wrote:

> Thanks! The solution seems to work. The final *obstacle* was, that
> class_* symbols were not available until I added the
> LICENSE("GPL"). Here is the resulting template, maybe useful for
> someone, and just for verification, that I got it right.
> static struct class_device *foo_device;
[...]
>     foo_device = class_device_create(foo_class, NULL, MKDEV(foo_major, 0), NULL, "foo0");
[...]

You should probably rather move away from struct class_device and 
class_device_create() and use struct device and device_create() instead 
(all the drivers using class_device are currently being converted this 
way, so that class_device could go away), so that your driver is using the 
new kernel driver core API.

The conversion should be really very simple.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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