-# Character devices allocation
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-In Linux, major and minor numbers have to be requested or allocated. The
-calls to do that for character devices are:
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-* int register\\_chrdev\\_region (dev\\_t first, unsigned int count, char
-*name);
-* int alloc\\_chrdev\\_region (dev\\_t *dev, unsigned int firstminor,
-unsigned int count, char *name);
-* void unregister\\_chrdev\\_region (dev\\_t dev, unsigned int count);
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