How can I create a device node from the init_module code of a Linux kernel module?
To have more control over the device numbers and the device creation, you could do the following steps (instead of register_chrdev()): Call alloc_chrdev_region() to get a major number and a range of minor numbers to work with. Create a device class for your devices with class_create(). For each device, call cdev_init() and cdev_add() to add … Read more