Re: automagic udev device node creation?

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 18:04, Sander, Tim<Tim.Sander@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have written a simple mmap test driver which seems to work so far.=20
> The only problem i have, is that no udev device node is automatically =
> created?=20
> So i really would like to know what part is missing to make udev =
> automatically create
> the device node?
>
> Everything works alright if i just create the device node by hand.
>
> I suspect that these should be created out of the sysfs information =
> created by the module.

Assign the "devt" value in the registered "struct device" with the
major/minor value of your device instance.

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=include/linux/device.h;h=aebb81036db2d368a7b55664f5a2b9d102c5109d;hb=HEAD#l407

Kay
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