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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and 30 files in /dev/
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:53:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050513185347.GA13518@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0505122149590.26478@adara.cs.pdx.edu>

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:51:52PM -0700, Daniel wrote:
> 
> I've been working with irda under linux and
> one problem that I'm unable to explain is
> why udev creates /dev/ircomm0 to /dev/ircomm30
> 
> How do I configure udev to only create 2 such files?
> Is this controlled by the udev rule set?

No, it's controlled by the kernel.  What does
/sys/class/whereever_ircomm_is_at show?

It's probably the driver that is creating 30 devices.

thanks,

greg k-h


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-13 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-13  4:51 udev and 30 files in /dev/ Daniel
2005-05-13 18:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-13 19:54 ` Daniel
2005-05-13 20:20 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 23:16 ` Daniel

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