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[PATCH] add function documentation for register_chrdev()

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Documentation for register_chrdev() was missing completely.

[akpm@osdl.org: kerneldocification]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rolf Eike Beer 2006-07-14 00:24:23 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/char_dev.c
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@ -182,6 +182,28 @@ int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count,
return 0;
}
/**
* register_chrdev() - Register a major number for character devices.
* @major: major device number or 0 for dynamic allocation
* @name: name of this range of devices
* @fops: file operations associated with this devices
*
* If @major == 0 this functions will dynamically allocate a major and return
* its number.
*
* If @major > 0 this function will attempt to reserve a device with the given
* major number and will return zero on success.
*
* Returns a -ve errno on failure.
*
* The name of this device has nothing to do with the name of the device in
* /dev. It only helps to keep track of the different owners of devices. If
* your module name has only one type of devices it's ok to use e.g. the name
* of the module here.
*
* This function registers a range of 256 minor numbers. The first minor number
* is 0.
*/
int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
const struct file_operations *fops)
{