* device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs
* @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to
* @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any
* @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added
* @drvdata: the data to be added to the device for callbacks
* @fmt: string for the device's name
*
* This function can be used by char device classes. A struct device
* will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified class.
*
* A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device, if
* the dev_t is not 0,0.
* If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly created
* struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs.
* The pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call.
* Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
* pointer.
*
* Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
* been created with a call to class_create().
*/
struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
dev_t devt, void *drvdata, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list vargs;
struct device *dev;
va_start(vargs, fmt);
dev = device_create_vargs(class, parent, devt, drvdata, fmt, vargs);
va_end(vargs);
return dev;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create);
struct device *device_create_vargs(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
dev_t devt, void *drvdata, const char *fmt,
va_list args)
{
struct device *dev = NULL;
int retval = -ENODEV;
if (class == NULL || IS_ERR(class))
goto error;
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto error;
}
dev->devt = devt;
dev->class = class;
dev->parent = parent;
dev->release = device_create_release;
dev_set_drvdata(dev, drvdata);
retval = kobject_set_name_vargs(&dev->kobj, fmt, args);
if (retval)
goto error;
retval = device_register(dev);
if (retval)
goto error;
return dev;
error:
put_device(dev);
return ERR_PTR(retval);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_vargs);
device_creat 是创建一个device设备,并用传进来的参数对这个device实例化,然后device_register注册这个设备
为什么字符设备会自动在dev下面创建一个设备文件呢?
是因为当 dev->devt成员不是00的时候,udev会自动侦测到,然后在dev下面创建一个相应的设备。
而普通device_register函数注册的device一般是 dev->devt成员为0 的,所以没有dev相应的字符设备。