On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:01:26 -0000, Kim Chan said: > To my understanding, device file is needed when a user program wants to > access the device and we don't need to generate the device file for us to use > the device in kernel. Is my understanding correct? Right. You don't need to generate the device file because you shouldn't be accessing the device in a file-like manner from inside the kernel. > I am trying to open a shell on my LCD (is it going to be tty2 That's userspace, not kernel access.
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