Trouble removing character device

[rohan puri]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Kai Meyer <kai at gnukai.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I can't share the source code, it belongs to the company I
> work for.
>
> All of cdev_init, cdev_del, and unregister_chrdev_region are void
> functions, so they have no return value.
>
> I check the return value of alloc_chrdev_region and cdev_add and check
> for errors with BUG_ON (for now).
>
> -Kai Meyer
>
> On 10/19/2011 02:18 PM, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Kai Meyer<kai at gnukai.com>  wrote:
> >> I can't seem to get my character device to remove itself from the
> >> /proc/devices list. I'm calling all of the following functions like so:
> >>
> >> alloc_chrdev_region(&dev, 0, 5, "my_char");
> >> cdev_init(&my_cdev,&my_ops);
> >> cdev_add(&my_cdev, MKDEV(my_major, my_minor), 1);
> >> cdev_del(&my_cdev);
> >> unregister_chrdev_region(my_major, 5);
> >>
> >> It seems like I'm missing something, but I can't find it. I'm
> >> referencing the Linux Device Drivers v3, chapter 3. In the example code,
> >> the scull_cleanup_module function calls cdev_dell and
> >> unregister_chrdev_region, just like I do.
> >>
> >> To be clear, after I unload my module (after calling cdev_del and
> >> unregister_chrdev_region), my "my_char" string still shows up in
> >> /proc/devices.
> > Did you check  return codes for all functions?
> > Also, can you post a link to the code?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Daniel.
> >
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During cleanup i think you need to call function unregister_chrdev_region().

Regards,
Rohan Puri
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