device_creat分析

转自 http://blog.csdn.net/batoom/article/details/6627659

/**
 * 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。