Writing Device Drivers for Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: September 2014
 
 

Source Files

    A C source file (a .c file) for a device driver has the following responsibilities:

  • Contains the data declarations and the code for the entry points of the driver

  • Contains the #include statements that are needed by the driver

  • Declares extern references

  • Declares local data

  • Sets up the cb_ops and dev_ops structures

  • Declares and initializes the module configuration section, that is, the modlinkage(9S) and modldrv(9S) structures

  • Makes any other necessary declarations

  • Defines the driver entry points