On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:36:36AM +0530, kishore wrote: > hai, > I tried mknod( ) inside an LKM,but it needs > "/usr/include header files, which is not preferred, I hope . > I turned to use sys_mknod( ) in > "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/syscalls.h". > When I tried to compile the LKM, it raised a warning > " implicit declaration of function sys_mknod " > > Can any one suggest how to create a device in an LKM. No, please do not do that, you should be calling mknod from userspace from a tool, like udev. Why do you feel you need to create this from within the kernel? thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
