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From: David Ford <david+powerix@blue-labs.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	apcupsd-devel@apcupsd.org
Subject: Re: APC USB ups, Back-UPS ES series, 2.5.68
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 21:42:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB7130D.6080802@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB39463.2080307@blue-labs.org>

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?
>


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-03  3:04 APC USB ups, Back-UPS ES series, 2.5.68 David Ford
2003-05-03  6:36 ` Greg KH
2003-05-03 10:05   ` David Ford
2003-05-06  1:42     ` David Ford [this message]
2003-05-06  4:25       ` Greg KH

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