Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:08:52 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bob Pickles <bpickles@sbs.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Device Driver Deleopment Message-ID: <2146.1074805732@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:09:25 GMT." <018b01c3e12c$042b19d0$1d02a8c0@sdlbase>
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In message <018b01c3e12c$042b19d0$1d02a8c0@sdlbase>, "Bob Pickles" writes: >Hi > >Looking for some help with FreeBSD 5.1, I am new to this but I am >fairly quick to learn. > >Problem that I am having, is that in my device driver, it see's my PCI card, but when >I call make_dev the system hangs, then resets. > >If I try to use mknod, then it fails also. Looked at the /dev mount and even devfs fails. >Is there some form of protection here that I don't know about? >How can I create a device on /dev? It sounds to me like you are calling make_dev() with wrong parameters, all our other device drivers get this to work, so I suggest finding a similar one and compare it to your own code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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