On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:16:48PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi group, > > Can anybody tell me what happens in this piece of code: > > mousedev_table[minor] = mousedev; > > devfs_mk_cdev(MKDEV(INPUT_MAJOR, MOUSEDEV_MINOR_BASE + minor), > S_IFCHR|S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, "input/mouse%d", minor); > class_simple_device_add(input_class, > MKDEV(INPUT_MAJOR, MOUSEDEV_MINOR_BASE + minor), > dev->dev, "mouse%d", minor); > > I am especially interested in devfs_mk_cdev and what is means. > > Can anybody help me? It creates a devfs char device, if devfs is enabled in the kernel. Personally I find the class_simple_device_add() stuff more interesting :) Hope this helps, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
