<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >devfs_mk_dir</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Kernel API" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The Device File System" HREF="c10385.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="devfs_mk_symlink" HREF="r10515.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="devfs_get_handle" HREF="r10622.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Kernel API</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r10515.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r10622.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN10578" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >devfs_mk_dir</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN10582" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >devfs_mk_dir -- Create a directory in the devfs namespace. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN10585" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN10587" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >devfs_handle_t <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >devfs_mk_dir </TT ></CODE >(devfs_handle_t <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dir</I ></TT >, const char * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >name</I ></TT >, void * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >info</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN10597" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dir</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The handle to the parent devfs directory entry. If this is <TT CLASS="CONSTANT" >NULL</TT > the new name is relative to the root of the devfs. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of the entry. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >info</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > An arbitrary pointer which will be associated with the entry. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN10616" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > Use of this function is optional. The <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >devfs_register</TT > function will automatically create intermediate directories as needed. This function is provided for efficiency reasons, as it provides a handle to a directory. Returns a handle which may later be used in a call to <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >devfs_unregister</TT >. On failure <TT CLASS="CONSTANT" >NULL</TT > is returned. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r10515.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r10622.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >devfs_mk_symlink</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c10385.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >devfs_get_handle</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >