March 12, 2014
12:14 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:01:26 -0000, Kim Chan said:
To my understanding, device file is needed when a user program wants to access the device and we don't need to generate the device file for us to use the device in kernel. Is my understanding correct?
Right. You don't need to generate the device file because you shouldn't be accessing the device in a file-like manner from inside the kernel.
I am trying to open a shell on my LCD (is it going to be tty2
That's userspace, not kernel access.