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From : "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu"
Sent : 2014-03-12 21:14:49 ( +09:00 )
To : Kim Chan
Cc : Kernel , kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject : Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:01:26 -,
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
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:01 PM
> To: Chan Kim
> Cc: Kernel; kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
> Subject: Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kim Chan wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I know mknod command. I just wanted to know
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> From : "Kernel"
> Sent : 2014-03-11 14:44:09 ( +09:00 )
> To : Kim Chan
> Cc : kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
> Subject : Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
>
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:25 PM, 김찬 wrote:
>
> H
anybody tell me some direction?
From : "Kernel"
Sent : 2014-03-11 14:44:09 ( +09:00 )
To : Kim Chan
Cc : kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject : Re: Does register_chrdev function make device file under /dev ?
On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:25 PM, 김찬 mailto:c...@etri.re.k
> On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:25 PM, 김찬 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 vcs_in
