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Driver porting: Char devices and large dev_t

Posted Sep 29, 2003 12:45 UTC (Mon) by cynove (guest, #15558)
In reply to: Driver porting: Char devices and large dev_t by cynove
Parent article: Driver porting: Char devices and large dev_t

Maybe I should have done more googling !
It seems the response is there :

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0309.2/0150.html

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Exporting char dev functions

Posted Sep 29, 2003 13:53 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

That patch went into -test6; upgrade and your module should work.

Do be aware that the char driver interface is still somewhat volatile; things will still change somewhat before it's all over.