From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0.towertech.it (mx0.towertech.it [213.215.222.73]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 655FE67BE1 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:21:56 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:21:48 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: "Joakim Tjernlund" Subject: Re: NTP time sync Message-ID: <20061126202148.190d5b4b@inspiron> In-Reply-To: <009a01c7114a$b429f850$020120ac@Jocke> References: <200611251522.19900.david-b@pacbell.net> <009a01c7114a$b429f850$020120ac@Jocke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: akpm@osdl.org, 'Andi Kleen' , 'Linux Kernel Mailing List' , ralf@linux-mips.org, 'David Brownell' , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, paulus@samba.org, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, davem@davemloft.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:04:54 +0100 "Joakim Tjernlund" wrote: > Looking at rtc-dev.c I don't see a MARJOR number assigned to /dev/rtcN. Seems like > it is dynamically allocated to whatever major number that is free. > Is that the way it is supposed to be? How do I create a static /dev/rtcN in my /dev > directory if the major number isn't fixed? > Maybe I am just missing something, feel free to correct me :) udev ;) the concept of static numbers is quite old... -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy http://www.towertech.it