Engineering Clinic

A Character device driver needs a major number and a minor number. The devices are registered in the Kernel and it lies either in the /dev/ or in the /proc folder. The following example uses a char device driver with major number 222 and a minor number 0. The name of the device driver namely “ new_device ” It uses the following things Open or register a device close or unregister the device Reading from the device (Kernel to the userspace) Writing to the device (userlevel to the kernel space) There are three files, Copy the following or download all the three files here /* new_dev.c*/ #include<linux/module.h> #include<linux/init.h> #include "new_dev.h" MODULE_AUTHOR("PRADEEPKUMAR"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("A simple char device"); static int r_init(void); static void r_cleanup(void); module_init(r_init); module_exit(r_cleanup); static int r_init(void) { printk("<1>hi\n"); if(register_chrdev(222,"new_device",&am

Once Moodle is stable, it will be put under licence. If it were any good, they’d already be charging for it Moodle needs a full time, php developer on your staff- or at least a lot of technical support to run it in house Moodle won’t be compatible with our other systems/software Moodle just doesn’t have the commercial experience we’re looking for You can’t just use Moodle out of the box – the basic Moodle install just isn’t that sophisticated There’s no documentation, training or technical support available – you’re on your own The Total Cost of Ownership is actually higher for Moodle than it would be with a wholly commercial platform Moodle is just no good for an institution as large as mine Moodle is just not designed to cope with my specific group of learners or customers We have all our stuff on *******, it’s just not worth the hassle of switching to Moodle Source: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Top_10_Moodle_Myths