Create a device node in code

static int __init ofcd_init(void) /* Constructor */
{
    printk(KERN_INFO "Welcome!");
    if (alloc_chrdev_region(&first, 0, 1, "char_dev") < 0)  //$cat /proc/devices
    {
        return -1;
    }
    if ((cl = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "chardrv")) == NULL)    //$ls /sys/class
    {
        unregister_chrdev_region(first, 1);
        return -1;
    }

    cdev_init(&c_dev, &fops);
    if (cdev_add(&c_dev, first, 1) == -1)
    {
        device_destroy(cl, first);
        class_destroy(cl);
        unregister_chrdev_region(first, 1);
        return -1;
    }

    if (device_create(cl, NULL, first, NULL, "mynull") == NULL) //$ls /dev/
    {
        class_destroy(cl);
        unregister_chrdev_region(first, 1);
        return -1;
    }
    return 0;
}

Code might be clear if you would use goto like kernel uses.