Hi,
I have written this patch so that /dev/raw now appears in a devfs
filesystem. I haven't tried to support the /dev/rawN devices because
I'm not sure that it would be worthwhile. (Seeing as you need to bind
them by hand manually anyway.)
Cheers,
Chris
--- linux-2.4.5/drivers/char/raw.c.orig Sat May 26 11:58:45 2001
+++ linux-2.4.5/drivers/char/raw.c Sat Jun 16 20:54:10 2001
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/raw.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#define dprintk(x...)
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
} raw_device_data_t;
static raw_device_data_t raw_devices[256];
+static const char RAW_DEVICE_NAME[] = "raw";
static ssize_t rw_raw_dev(int rw, struct file *, char *, size_t, loff_t *);
@@ -53,7 +55,11 @@
static int __init raw_init(void)
{
int i;
- register_chrdev(RAW_MAJOR, "raw", &raw_fops);
+ devfs_register_chrdev(RAW_MAJOR, RAW_DEVICE_NAME, &raw_fops);
+ devfs_register(NULL, RAW_DEVICE_NAME, DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT,
+ RAW_MAJOR, 0,
+ S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
+ &raw_fops, NULL);
for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
init_MUTEX(&raw_devices[i].mutex);
--AA136AFB19.993012573/zappa.oak.suse.com--
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