From: Greg KH Adds support for mem class devices. Hopefully one day the /proc/sys/kernel/random files will move under sysfs into the location created by this patch (yeah, I know about the sysctl logic...) 25-akpm/drivers/char/mem.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/char/mem.c~sysfs-add-mem-device-support drivers/char/mem.c --- 25/drivers/char/mem.c~sysfs-add-mem-device-support Tue Dec 23 13:43:30 2003 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/mem.c Tue Dec 23 13:43:30 2003 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -675,6 +676,10 @@ static const struct { {11,"kmsg", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, &kmsg_fops}, }; +static struct class mem_class = { + .name = "mem", +}; + static int __init chr_dev_init(void) { int i; @@ -682,7 +687,11 @@ 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++) { + simple_add_class_device(&mem_class, + MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, devlist[i].minor), + NULL, devlist[i].name); devfs_mk_cdev(MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, devlist[i].minor), S_IFCHR | devlist[i].mode, devlist[i].name); } _