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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'>October 22, 2022</span></div>
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+<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>October 24, 2022</span></div>
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@@ -1505,8 +1505,9 @@ First, we should register a range of device numbers, which can be completed with
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<pre class='fancyvrb' id='fancyvrb40'><a id='x1-29019r1'></a><span class='ecrm-0500'>1</span><span id='textcolor400'><span class='ectt-0800'>int</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> register_chrdev_region(</span><span id='textcolor401'><span class='ectt-0800'>dev_t</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> from, </span><span id='textcolor402'><span class='ectt-0800'>unsigned</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> count, </span><span id='textcolor403'><span class='ectt-0800'>const</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> </span><span id='textcolor404'><span class='ectt-0800'>char</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> *name);</span>
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<a id='x1-29021r2'></a><span class='ecrm-0500'>2</span><span id='textcolor405'><span class='ectt-0800'>int</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> alloc_chrdev_region(</span><span id='textcolor406'><span class='ectt-0800'>dev_t</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> *dev, </span><span id='textcolor407'><span class='ectt-0800'>unsigned</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> baseminor, </span><span id='textcolor408'><span class='ectt-0800'>unsigned</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> count, </span><span id='textcolor409'><span class='ectt-0800'>const</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> </span><span id='textcolor410'><span class='ectt-0800'>char</span></span><span class='ectt-0800'> *name);</span></pre>
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-<!-- l. 1019 --><p class='indent'> The choose of two different functions depend on whether you know the major numbers for your
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-device. Using <code> <span class='ectt-1000'>register_chrdev_region</span>
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+<!-- l. 1019 --><p class='indent'> The choice between two different functions depends on
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+whether you know the major numbers for your device. Using
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+<code> <span class='ectt-1000'>register_chrdev_region</span>
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</code> if you know the device major number and
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<code> <span class='ectt-1000'>alloc_chrdev_region</span>
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</code> if you would like to allocate a dynamicly-allocated major number.
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