Step 1:申请设备号（主要是申请主设备号）
有两种方式:
⑴静态申请
通过下面这个函数实现：
intregister_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count, const char *name);
/* register_chrdev_region() - register a range of device numbers
* @from:the first in the desired range of device numbers; must include
* the major number.
* @count: the number of consecutive device numbers required
* @name: the name of the device or driver.
*
* Return value is zero on success, a negative error code on failure.*/
这种方式主要用于，驱动开发者事先知道该驱动主设备号的情况。
⑵动态申请
通过下面这个函数实现：
intalloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count, const char *name)
/* alloc_chrdev_region() - register a range of char device numbers
* @dev: output parameter for first assigned number
* @baseminor: first of the requested range of minor numbers
* @count: the number of minor numbers required
* @name: the name of the associated device or driver
*
* Allocates a range of char device numbers.The major number will be
* chosen dynamically, and returned (along with the first minor number)
* in @dev.Returns zero or a negative error code.*/
这种方式由系统动态分配一个设备号，返回的设备号保存在参数dev中。
Step 2 :注册字符设备
在linux 内核中用struct cdev表示一个字符设备。
字符设备的注册与注销分别通过下面的两个函数来实现：
intcdev_add(struct cdev *p, dev_t dev, unsigned count)；
/**
* cdev_add() - add a char device to the system
* @p: the cdev structure for the device
* @dev: the first device number for which this device is responsible
* @count: the number of consecutive minor numbers corresponding to this
* device
*
* cdev_add() adds the device represented by @p to the system, making it
* live immediately.A negative error code is returned on failure.
*/
voidcdev_del(struct cdev *p)；
不过，在注册一个字符设备之前，要调用下面这个函数来初始化struct cdev结构体:
voidcdev_init(struct cdev *cdev, const struct file_operations *fops)
/**
* cdev_init() - initialize a cdev structure
* @cdev: the structure to initialize
* @fops: the file_operations for this device
*
* Initializes @cdev, remembering @fops, making it ready to add to the
* system with cdev_add().
*/
另外，struct cdev结构体变量可以声明为一个指针，内核提供了一个函数来申请：
struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void)；
step 3:创建设备节点
有两种方法：
一是通过mknod命令来创建。如：
mknod /dev/yourname c major minor
其中“yourname”可以是任意符合unix下路径名的名字，不一定要是你代码里定义的驱动或设备的名字；c 表示创建字符设备节点，major是你成功申请的主设备号，minor是次设备号，这个可以是任意的（在次设备号范围内）
另外一种方法是通过udev自动生成。这种方法需要在你的代码里创建一个设备类，然后在这个设备类的基础上，创建一个设备；另外应用程序需要跑一个udevd的后台程序。
struct class*class_create(owner, name);
struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
dev_t devt, void *drvdata, const char *fmt, ...)