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From: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com>
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Subject: Re: Oops in register_chrdev, what did I do?
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Uttered Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se>, spake thus:

> While experimenting a bit with a small kernel module, I got this
> oops.  Digging further, I found that /proc/devices had an entry saying
> 248 <NULL>
> which would indicate that I passed a NULL name to register_chrdev(),
> only I didn't.  I used a string constant, so I can't see what changed
> it to NULL along the way.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Enough information for us to help you.  Show us your code snippet,
please.