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On 27 Feb 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970227232700.247A-100000@localhost> > By author: Stephan Meyer <sensei@wiesel.de> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Access to the registers is made available through the character device > > /dev/msr major 10 / minor 8. (Could the responsible person please make > > this assignment official?). > > > > No; minor 8 is already assigned, and besides, the range 0-127 are for > mice. You have been assigned minor number 142 for this device. > > -hpa I'm sorry about that. I do have a copy of the most recent 2.1.x kernel, but I was just too lazy to go and look. To assign the new minor number, just change the #define in msr.c. I forgot: to create the device /dev/msr, type: "mknod /dev/msr c 10 142". Cheers, Stephan ----------------------------------------------- Stephan Meyer +49-89-4301114 Stephan.Meyer@munich.netsurf.de http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~meyer/ ----------------------------------------------- | ||||||||||||
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