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Philippe Gerum authored
How devices are described for registration with rtdm_dev_register() is significantly modified, affecting both named and protocol device drivers exactly the same way. Aside of fixing consistency issues, the bulk of changes is aimed at narrowing the gap between the regular Linux device driver model and RTDM. RTDM now shares the Linux namespace for named devices, which are backed by common character device objects from the regular Linux device model. As a consequence of this, file descriptors obtained on named RTDM devices are regular file descriptors on real chrdevs, visible from the /proc/<pid>/fd interface. The major change required for supporting this closer integration of RTDM into the regular Linux driver model involved splitting the device class properties from the device instance definitions, which used to be combined in Xenomai 2.x into the rtdm_device descriptor. A new rtdm_device_class descriptor is introduced, for describing the general static properties of the devices exposed by a driver. rtdm_device now represents an instance of such class. rtdm_device objects link to the descriptor of the rtdm_device class they belong to. Hotplug support --------------- RTDM first allocates and reserves a major and a range of device minors when the first device of a named device class is registered via rtdm_dev_register(). Up to class->device_count minors will be reserved. Minor number are assigned to devices in order of registration, starting from minor #0. Device nodes for named RTDM devices are automatically visible from the /dev/rtdm/ hierarchy with hotplug-enabled device fs (DEVTMPFS now recommended).
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