/** * cdev_alloc() - allocate a cdev structure * * Allocates and returns a cdev structure, or NULL on failure. */ struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void) { struct cdev *p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL); if (p) { INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->list); kobject_init(&p->kobj, &ktype_cdev_dynamic); }
return p; } ... EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_alloc);