Re: Oops in register_chrdev, what did I do?

["Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>]

Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com> writes:

> Uttered Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se>, spake thus:
>
>> While experimenting a bit with a small kernel module, I got this
>> oops.  Digging further, I found that /proc/devices had an entry saying
>> 248 <NULL>
>> which would indicate that I passed a NULL name to register_chrdev(),
>> only I didn't.  I used a string constant, so I can't see what changed
>> it to NULL along the way.
>> 
>> What am I missing here?
>
> Enough information for us to help you.  Show us your code snippet,
> please.

I can't imagine that the details of the fops functions are a problem,
since they never get called.

static struct file_operations foo_fops = {
    .owner   = THIS_MODULE,
    .open    = foo_open,
    .read    = foo_read,
    .write   = foo_write,
    .mmap    = foo_mmap,
    .release = foo_release
};

static int __init
init_foo(void)
{
    int err;

    err = register_chrdev(foo_major, "foo", &foo_fops);
    if(err)
	return err;

    return 0;
}

static void __exit
exit_foo(void)
{
    unregister_chrdev(foo_major, "foo");
}

module_init(init_foo);
module_exit(exit_foo);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se