Wednesday, November 11, 2015

simple character driver using misc in linux

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>


static ssize_t sample_char_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
printk("sample_char_read size(%ld)\n", count);
return 0;
}

static ssize_t sample_char_write(struct file *filp, const char *buf,
size_t size, loff_t *offp)
{
printk("sample_char_write size(%ld)\n", size);
return size;

}

int sample_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
printk("sample_char_open\n");
return 0;
}

int sample_char_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{

printk("sample_char_release\n");
return 0;
}

static struct file_operations sample_char_fops = {
       read: sample_char_read,
       write: sample_char_write,
       open: sample_char_open,
       release: sample_char_release,
};

static struct miscdevice misc_dev = {
.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
.name = "sample_misc_dev",
.fops = &sample_char_fops,
.mode = S_IRWXUGO,
};

int init_module(void)
{
int ret = 0;
printk("\nLoading the sample misc char device driver\n");
ret = misc_register(&misc_dev);
if (ret)
printk("Unable to register misc dev\n");
return ret;
}

void cleanup_module(void)
{
printk("\nUnloading the sample char device driver\n");
misc_deregister(&misc_dev);
}

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