cdev_init(9)

cdev_init9

Initialize a cdev structure

Usage

void cdev_init(struct cdev * cdev, const struct file_operations * fops);

Arguments

cdev

the structure to initialize

fops

the file_operations for this device

Overview

Initializes cdev, remembering fops, making it ready to add to the system with cdev_add.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.