Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:14:06 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC]: add sysfs support to parport_pc, v3 |
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>> somewhere? > Good question. The answer is I have no idea. I booted Fedora Core and I did a > ls -l /dev and wrote down the specs for lp0 and parport0. lp0 looked like > crw-rw---- root lp 6, 0 date lp0 so that is what I used. After reading > Linux Device Drivers I found out that 6 is the major number and 0 is the minor > number. The goal was to make sure that the nodes generated by my patch were > the same as the nodes generated before my patch so I used those numbers. > Should I have used different major numbers?
You should have at least used the constants from <linux/major.h>
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