block devices or network devices. Both character and block devices have
identifying numbers, a major and a minor number.
</para>
+</foil>
+
+<foil>
+<title>Character devices allocation</title>
<para>
In Linux, major and minor numbers have to be requested or allocated. The
-calls to do that are:
+calls to do that for character devices are:
</para>
<para>
int register\_chrdev\_region (dev\_t first, unsigned int count, char