On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Daniel Baluta wrote: > > anyone know of such an example? i briefly grep'ped thru drivers/ > > for the macro MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but every example i saw was, on > > this system, configured to be built into the kernel. > > Why don't you recompile your kernel, and select <M> for your sample > driver? while that's a nice idea, because i'm trying to make this part of a course, i want the first exercise to be *extremely* simple -- to simply load something that's already there and ready to go. that would be followed by the students then writing their own miscdevice-based driver. so, starting on the trivial end, i just wondered whether there was a module that already fit the bill i could use as a test example, and i don't immediately see one. another miscdevice-based question coming shortly. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================