Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:13:51 +0300 | From | "Vitaliy Ivanov" <> | Subject | Re: Driver question: multiple instances of same char device |
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On 7/10/07, Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne@infinitevideocorporation.com> wrote: > I am relatively new to linux device development. And want to understand > Linux conventions. > > Suppose I have a PCI card that is represented in the system by a > character device. > > If I have two of those PCI cards in the system when the driver module > loads, is it convention to have two different major numbers, or have one > major number and two different minor numbers? > > Thanks, > Jon
You can start your kernel hacking way from ldd. It can be found at: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
There are a few other books by R. Love or Greg KH that you can read.
Such questions are fully covered there.
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