要使用某个驱动,必须先加载驱动模块,通常使用insmod加载驱动模块,rmmod移除驱动。insmod会调用驱动入口函数module_init,rmmod会调用module_exit。
加载驱动之后,app就可以通过open函数打开设备(所有设备都被当成文件),当app使用open、write、read对设备进行操作时,实际上是调用file_operations结构体的成员函数。具体函数内容由我们在驱动代码里定义。
static inline int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name, const struct file_operations *fops){ return __register_chrdev(major, 0, 256, name, fops);}
int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
unsigned int count, const char *name,
const struct file_operations *fops)
{
struct char_device_struct *cd;
struct cdev *cdev;
int err = -ENOMEM;
cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count, name);
if (IS_ERR(cd))
return PTR_ERR(