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@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ That is a bad way of doing things because you will never be sure if the number y
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The answer is that you can ask the kernel to assign you a dynamic major number.
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If you pass a major number of 0 to \verb|register_chrdev|, the return value will be the dynamically allocated major number.
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-The downside is that you ca not make a device file in advance, since you don't know what the major number will be.
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+The downside is that you can not make a device file in advance, since you don't know what the major number will be.
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There are a couple of ways to do this.
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First, the driver itself can print the newly assigned number and we can make the device file by hand.
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Second, the newly registered device will have an entry in \textbf{/proc/devices}, and we can either make the device file by hand or write a shell script to read the file in and make the device file.
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Jim Huang