Oops ! Sorry for top-posting and "Reply-to-All". Genuine mistake. On 10/10/06, Raseel Bhagat <raseelbhagat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was always possible to assign major device numbers dynamically. I think what Jinesh wants to point out that , the parameer _dev itself should not be used by driver developers. It is something that should be obvious for the developer and treated as a black-box , so to speak. So is POSIX compiancy the ONLY reason the major and minor numebrs are present ? On 10/10/06, pradeep singh <2500.pradeep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > > No. That is now handled by udev and sysfs. > > > > What I was saying about was that the driver writer need not know how > > the kernel handles devices internally(using major and minor numbers). > > The concept of major and minor numbers does not seem to cook well now > > a days. Does it? > AFAIR you need not to worry now about it now.Kernel allocates major > numbers (not used )one for you dynamically, isnt it? This is what ldd3 > says if am right. > please CMIIW. > > > > Jinesh. > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > > > > -- > play the game > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Raseel. http://raseel.livejournal.com
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