kernel function: cdev_add, cdev_init, device_create and device_create

 To use a character driver, first you should register it with the system. Then you should expose it to the user space.

 

1. cdev_init and cdev_add functions perform the character device registration. cdev_add adds the character device to the system. When cdev_add function successfully completes, the device is live and the kernel can invoke its operations.

2.   class_create is used to create a virtual device class, so that in the user space this virtual device node under /dev can be accessed, first of all under the folder sys/class there will have one classfolder under which contains the all specified devices. After this then creating a device and registering it with sysfs using the device_create function. device_create will create a device file in /dev.

more kernel function can refer this link, where all the function and headfile components will be listed.

kernel function library