Communication between a driver and application.

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Communication between a driver and application.
I am writing a driver for a PCI card. I have found very good examples of how the driver should be build.
Where do I find the information about how the user mode application should be talking the driver.
So If you have any idea that will help me, please let me know.

Answer 1

Hi,Sir
This for your reference.
It will create pci adapter device node at /devices .
You can use AP function call ioctl to Communicate with your device driver.
static int
xxattach(dev_info_t *dip, ddi_attach_cmd_t cmd)
int instance = ddi_get_instance(dip);
switch (cmd) {
case DDI_ATTACH:
allocate a state structure and initialize it.
map the device�s registers.
add the device driver�s interrupt handler(s).
initialize any mutexes and condition variables.
create power manageable components.
* Create the device�s minor node. Note that the node_type
* argument is set to DDI_NT_TAPE.
if (ddi_create_minor_node(dip, "minor_name", S_IFCHR,
instance, DDI_NT_TAPE, 0) == DDI_FAILURE) {
free resources allocated so far.
/* Remove any previously allocated minor nodes */
ddi_remove_minor_node(dip, NULL);
return (DDI_FAILURE);
* Create driver properties like "Size." Use "Size"
* instead of "size" to ensure the property works
* for large bytecounts.
xsp->Size = size of device in bytes;
maj_number = ddi_driver_major(dip);
if (ddi_prop_update_int64(makedevice(maj_number, instance),
dip, "Size", xsp->Size) != DDI_PROP_SUCCESS) {
cmn_err(CE_CONT, "%s: cannot create Size property\n",
ddi_get_name(dip));
free resources allocated so far
return (DDI_FAILURE);