Re: APC USB ups, Back-UPS ES series, 2.5.68

David Ford
2003-05-06T00:35:08Z

I haven't had time to look at it and try to debug it. The 96 v.s. 192
minor look like it's exactly 128 too high. Perhaps it's a simple fix?

David

David Ford wrote:

> Yep...a simple fact that I overlooked. This is a devfs created file
> so the kernel is at fault. Looks like it's off by 128.
>
>>>
>>> ~# ls -l /dev/usb/hid
>>> total 0
>>> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 180, 192 Dec 31 1969 hiddev96
>>> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 180, 193 Dec 31 1969 hiddev97
>>>
>>
>>
>> Huh? /dev/usb/hiddev0 is major 180, minor 96. So the kernel asked for
>> minor 96 and it got it. Why are you trying to connect to minor number
>> 192?
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