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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:45:54 +0100
From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: How to add a device file to sysfs?
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:30:36PM +0800, Aubrey wrote:
>   
>> I've read the doc under linux-2.6.x/Documentation, I can add it to
>> some other directory, but not found a way to add it to my own
>> directory.
>>     
>
> After misc_register() has been successfully called, the variable "class"
> will be set in the miscdevice structure.  Use that pointer to call
> class_device_create_file() to create your new file in this directory.
>   

How does it work in -mm where miscdevice does not contain a "class"
anymore, but only pointers to some "device"?

Thanks,
Brice

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