Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
16 years ago

Device node

Hi, Now after I boot uclinux I use the command mknod to create my "/dev/name(device)" to control my hardware. Also I have done a script to do it when the system's boot, but I would like to...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
16 years ago

If the Kernel is configured appropriately, you can dynamically create a device note in your module's init code using alloc_chrdev_region().

-Michael