Re: Pci driver and udev...

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:31:02PM +0100, Kris van Rens wrote:
> So I assume the cdev stuff is just for 'internal' registration of the
> character device and something else should be used to tell udev a new
> device is there?

Yes, that is true.

> So I found the part about udev and 'class_simple_*' in the ldd3 book
> but that was deleted from the kernel.
> 
> As I understand it was replaced by the better version of 'class' but I
> kind of lost in all the functions in base/class.c...
> 
> Can someone enlighten me?

class_device_create() is what you should look at.  Actually, I'd
recommend just using device_create() with a class instead, it's what I'm
converting the kernel to use in all places for class_device_create().

thanks,

greg k-h

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