From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261867AbUFBL3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:29:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261988AbUFBL3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:29:20 -0400 Received: from penta.pentaserver.com ([216.74.97.66]:33002 "EHLO penta.pentaserver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261867AbUFBL3O (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:29:14 -0400 From: Manu Abraham Reply-To: manu@kromtek.com Organization: Kromtek Systems To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Minor numbers under 2.6 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:19:32 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406021519.32128.manu@kromtek.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - penta.pentaserver.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kromtek.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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