3.9. Quick Reference
This chapter introduced the following symbols and header files. The
list of the fields in struct
file_operations and struct
file is not repeated here.
- #include <linux/types.h>
- dev_t
-
dev_t is the type used to r
epresent device numbers within the kernel.
- int MAJOR(dev_t dev);
- int MINOR(dev_t dev);
-
Macros that extract the major and minor
numbers from a device number.
- dev_t MKDEV(unsigned int major, unsigned int minor);
-
Macro that
builds a dev_t data item from the major and minor
numbers.
- #include <linux/fs.h>
-
The
"filesystem" header is the header
required for writing device drivers. Many important functions and
data structures are declared in here.
- int register_chrdev_region(dev_t first, unsigned int count, char *name)
- int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned int firstminor, unsigned int
- count, char *name)
- void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t first, unsigned int count);
-
Functions that allow a driver to allocate and free ranges of device
numbers. register_chrdev_region should be used
when the desired major number is known in advance; for dynamic
allocation, use alloc_chrdev_region instead.
- int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name, struct file_operations
- *fops);
-
The old (pre-2.6) char device registration routine. It is emulated in
the 2.6 kernel but should not be used for new code. If the major
number is not 0, it is used unchanged; otherwise a dynamic number is
assigned for this device.
- int unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name);
-
Function that undoes a registration made with
register_chrdev. Both major
and the name string must contain the same values
that were used to register the driver.
- struct file_operations;
- struct file;
- struct inode;
-
Three important data structures used by most device drivers. The
file_operations structure holds a char
driver's methods; struct
file represents an open file, and struct
inode represents a file on disk.
- #include <linux/cdev.h>
- struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void);
- void cdev_init(struct cdev *dev, struct file_operations *fops);
- int cdev_add(struct cdev *dev, dev_t num, unsigned int count);
- void cdev_del(struct cdev *dev);
-
Functions for the management of cdev structures,
which represent char devices within the kernel.
- #include <linux/kernel.h>
- container_of(pointer, type, field);
-
A convenience macro that may be used to obtain a pointer to a
structure from a pointer to some other structure contained within it.
- #include <asm/uaccess.h>
-
This
include file declares functions used by kernel code to move data to
and from user space.
- unsigned long copy_from_user (void *to, const void *from, unsigned long
- unsigned long copy_to_user (void *to, const void *from, unsigned long count);
-
Copy data between user space and kernel space.
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