Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:14:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Anyway to mknod from kernel? |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> That's how I've done it in the past. It's pretty easy, requires a > dirt-simple setup script to be run one time (instead of after every > install of the module, which I gather is what you want to avoid), and the > code is dirt simple: (snipped from something I was working back in late > 2.1 days)
... and will break apart RSN. _Please_ don't use the knowledge of proc_dir_entry guts - there are cleaner ways to achieve the same result.
> struct proc_dir_entry *node = malloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry)); > *node = (struct proc_dir_entry) { > 0, strlen("device"), "device", > S_IFBLK | S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO | > MKDEV(device_major, device_minor), > 1, 0, 0, 0, > &blkdev_inode_operations, > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, > NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, 0 }; > proc_register(parent_proc_directory, node);
_That_ simply will not work. lower bits of i_mode are not a place for i_rdev.
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