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From: Manu Abraham <manu@kromtek.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Minor numbers under 2.6
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:19:32 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406021519.32128.manu@kromtek.com> (raw)

Hi,
	Can somebody clarify a question that i have ?

	Say under 2.4 kernel, char device drivers had a minor number of int. In the 
2.6 kernels, this number was increased to 20 bits from 8 bits. Under 2.6 i 
could use "mknod -c major, minor". 

	How can i achieve something similar with 2.6 taking into consideration that i 
have to create more than 255 minors ?


Regards,
Manu


             reply	other threads:[~2004-06-02 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-02 11:19 Manu Abraham [this message]
2004-06-02 14:49 ` Minor numbers under 2.6 Greg KH
2004-06-02 15:10   ` Eric BEGOT
2004-06-02 15:16     ` Greg KH
2004-06-02 17:49   ` Manu Abraham
2004-06-02 18:44   ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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