From: Greg KH This adds /sys/class/mem which enables all mem char devices to show up properly in udev. Has been posted to linux-kernel every so often since last July, and acked by a number of other kernel developers. drivers/char/mem.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/mem.c~sysfs-mem-device-support drivers/char/mem.c --- 25/drivers/char/mem.c~sysfs-mem-device-support 2003-12-22 20:19:04.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/mem.c 2003-12-22 20:19:04.000000000 -0800 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -656,7 +657,7 @@ static struct file_operations memory_fop .open = memory_open, /* just a selector for the real open */ }; -static const struct { +static const struct mem_dev { unsigned int minor; char *name; umode_t mode; @@ -675,6 +676,23 @@ static const struct { {11,"kmsg", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, &kmsg_fops}, }; +static void release_mem_dev(struct class_device *class_dev) +{ + kfree(class_dev); +} + +static struct class mem_class = { + .name = "mem", + .release = &release_mem_dev, +}; + +static ssize_t show_dev(struct class_device *class_dev, char *buf) +{ + struct mem_dev *mem_dev = class_get_devdata(class_dev); + return print_dev_t(buf, MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, mem_dev->minor)); +} +static CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(dev, S_IRUGO, show_dev, NULL); + static int __init chr_dev_init(void) { int i; @@ -682,7 +700,20 @@ static int __init chr_dev_init(void) if (register_chrdev(MEM_MAJOR,"mem",&memory_fops)) printk("unable to get major %d for memory devs\n", MEM_MAJOR); + class_register(&mem_class); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(devlist); i++) { + struct class_device *class_dev; + + class_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(*class_dev), GFP_KERNEL); + if (class_dev) { + memset(class_dev, 0x00, sizeof(*class_dev)); + class_dev->class = &mem_class; + strncpy(class_dev->class_id, devlist[i].name, BUS_ID_SIZE); + class_set_devdata(class_dev, (void *)&devlist[i]); + if (!class_device_register(class_dev)); + class_device_create_file(class_dev, &class_device_attr_dev); + } + devfs_mk_cdev(MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, devlist[i].minor), S_IFCHR | devlist[i].mode, devlist[i].name); } _