From 62a49651360729088a139ced3fff52b16d29ea36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 10:12:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Register number of devices.

---
 Makefile    | 13 +++++++++++++
 hellochar.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Makefile
 create mode 100644 hellochar.c

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05bc093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
+	obj-m := hellochar.o
+else
+	KERNELDIR ?= /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
+	PWD = `pwd`
+
+default:
+	make -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
+
+clean:
+	make -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) clean
+
+endif
diff --git a/hellochar.c b/hellochar.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..576968b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hellochar.c
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*
+ *  Copyright (C) 2010  Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ *  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+static int major = 10;
+module_param_named(major, major, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+
+static int __init ch_init(void)
+{
+	int r;
+	r = register_chrdev_region(MKDEV(major, 0), 256, "hello");
+	if (r)
+		return r;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit ch_exit(void)
+{
+	unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(major, 0), 256);
+}
+
+module_init(ch_init);
+module_exit(ch_exit);
-- 
2.20.1