Zeeshan, sometime various distribution set up links to actual device file. e.g. You can access cdrom by openning /dev/cdrom and this could be a link to /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb (first case ide cdrom and second case SCSI). Usman --- Zeeshan Ali <zeenix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I dont know how to communicate my concern. I can't digest how come > MAJOR NUMBER identifies the driver rather than the device type as I > see different drivers for different devices of the same type but the > device file is ALWAYS the same. E.g (i dont know if this is a good > example or not) when i say /dev/video0 the kernel knows i am talking > about the tv capture card and when i say /dev/video1 the kernel > knows that i am talking of my webcam. Now the major number of both > are the same but the device driver is definatelly not the same. How > do you explain that ? http://www.beconvinced.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
