Re: Associating driver to the existing device

[Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxx>]

> wouldnt it error out if the requested major is already in use ?
yes it errors in fact. That's not the error.
After briefly looking at the new character device system in chapter 3 of 
ldd 3rd, I think I got the error :)

Here's your code :
> int LinuxTestMemDevice_init(void)
> {
> int rv = -1;
> int devno = MKDEV(1,1);
> struct cdev my_cdev;
> printk("Skelton Driver, version %s\n", DRIVER_VERSION);
> my_cdev.owner=THIS_MODULE;
> my_cdev.ops =&my_fops;
> rv = cdev_add(&my_cdev,devno,1);

You have to alloc a cdev struct in kernel memory :
struct cdev *my_cdev = cdev_alloc();
my_cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
....

In C language, the local variables are pushed on the stack and are not 
persistent (only in the function).


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