Device driver development manual simplified version
Author : Eliot shao Blog URL :blog.csdn.net/eliot_shao Date :2015.03.26 Description:linux device driver model is regular ，Stand in the angle of the device driver users，just makes nodes in /dev(udev) or /sys(sysfs) .so just operate file system to build a bridge from user space file nodes to kernel data structures and device driver functions. Each device has a device number ,each device number connects to a device operations(file operations) .
Unused device driver frameworkCreate cdev
** Malloc master and slave device number int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count, const char *name) Initialize a cdev structure void cdev_init(struct cdev *cdev, const struct file_operations *fops) NOTE: Fill file_operations! Add a char device to the system int cdev_add(struct cdev *p, dev_t dev, unsigned count) Now cdev has been create and add to system ,but there is NO file node under the /dev connected device number . There are two ways to do: 1, Created under the /dev directory statically. ~#:sudo mknod /dev/xxx c 234 0 ; 2, Kernel sysfs support, which is an important part of the Linux device model.**
2.Sysfs operations
** Create device type directory xxx on /sys/class ,create a struct class structure struct class *class_create(struct module *owner, const char *name) Creates a class device and registers it with sysfs , Send uevents to udev, so it’ll create /dev nodes struct class_device *class_device_create(struct class *cls, struct class_device *parent, dev_t devt, struct device *device, const char *fmt, …) create sysfs attribute file for device int device_create_file(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr)**
use device driver framework
If you use device driver framework ,It’s easier ! Input devices, for example: 1, Allocate an input device data structure input_allocate_device(); 2, Register with the input subsystem input_register_device(xxx_input_dev); That is !
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