Device Driver Deleopment

[Bob Pickles]

Hi Poul

Thanks for the feedback.

I'll look at the parameters on other pci drivers.

Best Regards

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: "Bob Pickles" <bpickles at sbs.com>
Cc: <freebsd-arch at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Device Driver Deleopment


> In message <018b01c3e12c$042b19d0$1d02a8c0 at 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.
>
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