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Dynamic Kernels: Discovery

Issue 24

From Issue #24
April 1996

Apr 01, 1996  By Alessandro Rubini
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This article, the second of five, introduces part of the actual code to create custom module implementing a character device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and cleanup, as well as the open and close system calls.
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Where are functions defined

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 07:25.

Hello,

In which file are all the functions which are declared in the struct file_operations e.g open(), read();

Regards
Anil

Wherever You Like

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Submitted by Mitch Frazier on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 10:57.

Those functions have to be supplied by you. So you can put them wherever seems most appropriate for your code.

Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal.

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