Hello, I think I must clarify with examples. Lets say i develope a driver for a particular printer device (call it X) and there is already a driver for another printer that i have (call it Y). Now there are two instances of two different printers connected to my PC: X and Y. As these are different printers, they have different I/O interface and therefore they need different drivers. But for user, they should be accessible using the same device major number but different minor numbers. So would'nt these two SEPERATE INDEPENDENT drivers share the same major number? NOTE: i've taken the example of printer for the sake of explanation. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
