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Registering a Character Device Number - English

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Outline:
About device file
About serial character device files
Major and minor numbers of a device
Internal representation of device number
About fs.h file
About alloc_chrdev_region() function
Major and Minor macros
About Unregister_chrdev_region()function
Working of the above functions
Compile the driver
Display the output of major and minor number of my_device
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Pre-requisite

Passing Parameters to a Module

  Assignment

Code files

  • CodeFile-Register-Character-Device-Number/
  • CodeFile-Register-Character-Device-Number/Makefile
  • CodeFile-Register-Character-Device-Number/simple_driver.c

Script

Slides

  • Slides-Register--Character-Device-number/
  • Slides-Register--Character-Device-number/Register--Character-Device-number.tex
  • Slides-Register--Character-Device-number/Register--Character-Device-number.pdf
  • Slides-Register--Character-Device-number/st-logo.png
  • Slides-Register--Character-Device-number/fossee-logo.png