unregister_chrdev_region(9)

unregister_chrdev_region9

Unregister a range of device numbers

Usage

void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count);

Arguments

from

the first in the range of numbers to unregister

count

the number of device numbers to unregister

Overview

This function will unregister a range of count device numbers, starting with from. The caller should normally be the one who allocated those numbers in the first place...

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.