Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:32:01 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Driver question: multiple instances of same char device |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:06:36 -0400 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?
Usually one major and two minor, although sysfs and udev deals with much of it now - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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