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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Problem in alt_find_dev

I've got a DMA component in my system named "/dev/dma". I copied code from the Memtest template so it should work. However, calling alt_dma_txchan_open("/dev/dma") fails. I traced down into the libra...
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16 years ago

The only reason I can see for the failure is that the two strings (the one that you provide as device name and tho one declared in the system) are equal on the first 8 characters but differ on the ninth: yours has a 0 indicating an end of string, and the one in the system has something else, indicating that the string is longer.