Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:01:37 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Why does the _DoubleTalk card_ not have a major assigned? |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:50:50PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This is indeed true for the Comtrol Rocketport card but there's no > > major for the DoubleTalk card (and this is the card I wanted to write > > about). > > Maybe because it doesn't need a static major? For funky hardware like the > Doubletalk for which the number of Linux users worldwide can probably be > counted on your fingers you can just grep /proc/devices for its allocated > major and create the /dev node on the fly.
Thanks for your answer, I knew that this might have been a silly question (and my confusing first mail didn't make it better...).
> Nicolas
cu Adrian
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