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<h2 class='titleHead'>The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</h2>
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<div class='author'><span class='ecrm-1200'>Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, Jim Huang</span></div><br />
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-<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>August 2, 2021</span></div>
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+<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>August 4, 2021</span></div>
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@@ -1254,12 +1254,12 @@ because you will never be sure if the number you picked will be assigned later.
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The answer is that you can ask the kernel to assign you a dynamic major
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number.
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</p><!-- l. 855 --><p class='indent'> If you pass a major number of 0 to <span class='obeylines-h'><span class='verb'><span class='ectt-1000'>register_chrdev</span></span></span>, the return value will be the
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-dynamically allocated major number. The downside is that you ca not make a device
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-file in advance, since you don’t know what the major number will be. There are a
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-couple of ways to do this. First, the driver itself can print the newly assigned number
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-and we can make the device file by hand. Second, the newly registered device will
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-have an entry in <span class='ecbx-1000'>/proc/devices</span>, and we can either make the device file by hand or
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-write a shell script to read the file in and make the device file. The third method is
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+dynamically allocated major number. The downside is that you can not make a
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+device file in advance, since you don’t know what the major number will be. There
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+are a couple of ways to do this. First, the driver itself can print the newly assigned
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+number and we can make the device file by hand. Second, the newly registered device
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+will have an entry in <span class='ecbx-1000'>/proc/devices</span>, and we can either make the device file by hand
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+or write a shell script to read the file in and make the device file. The third method is
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we can have our driver make the the device file using the <span class='ecbx-1000'>device_create</span>
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function after a successful registration and <span class='ecbx-1000'>device_destroy </span>during the call to
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cleanup_module.
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