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A character device is a custom kernel module communicating with user space in an unstructured way.

Opening a device file fails due to No such device or address

I am trying to create a character device driver (kernel module). The modue gets loaded, creates the character device as …

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Linux kernel : Setting the permissions for a /dev file that was created via create_device()

I am making a small linux module that is a driver to a char device. In my code i create …

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