Hi
Iam using devfs in a driver for a pci based data acquistion card
my doubt is what is the last parameter in the function below
devfs_handle_t devfs_register (devfs_handle_t dir, const char * name,
unsigned int flags, unsigned int major, unsigned int minor, umode_t mode,
void * ops, void * info);
the man pages says that it is an arbitrary pointer which will be written to
the private data of the file structure,
so what is the actual purpose of the private data, can i pass user defined
structure that has details about
the card as the private data( so that this structure can be used further in
read, write and ioctl implementations )
Also need more info about devfsd installation its showing some error like
DEVFSD_NOTIFY_DELETE
Thanks
Sitaram
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