1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>input_get_new_minor</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers"><link rel="up" href="input_subsystem.html#idp1114168316" title="Input core"><link rel="prev" href="API-input-unregister-handle.html" title="input_unregister_handle"><link rel="next" href="API-input-free-minor.html" title="input_free_minor"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">input_get_new_minor</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-input-unregister-handle.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Input core</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-input-free-minor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-input-get-new-minor"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>input_get_new_minor &#8212; 
2     allocates a new input minor number
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">input_get_new_minor </b>(</code></td><td>int <var class="pdparam">legacy_base</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">legacy_num</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>bool <var class="pdparam">allow_dynamic</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1114476140"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>legacy_base</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     beginning or the legacy range to be searched
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>legacy_num</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     size of legacy range
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>allow_dynamic</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     whether we can also take ID from the dynamic range
9    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1114479868"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
10   This function allocates a new device minor for from input major namespace.
11   Caller can request legacy minor by specifying <em class="parameter"><code>legacy_base</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>legacy_num</code></em>
12   parameters and whether ID can be allocated from dynamic range if there are
13   no free IDs in legacy range.
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