Md A Saifulla <saif@lantana.tenet.res.in> wrote:
> I am writing device driver for an ineternet telephony card. It
> can connect four channels directly from PSTN. So i am taking the four
> channels as /dev/line1, /dev/line2, /dev/line3, /dev/line4. But in the DSP
> software of the card it has only one signalling channel. I have no idea
> about how to manage this one signalling channel among four voice channels.
>
> Actual doubt i have is if we take four device files with same major number
> and different minor numbers how the driver behaves? That is linux will
> take four different device drivers for the four device files differently
> or single device file for all the four. And one more problem is all these
> device files /dev/line1, /dev/line2 ... use same memory in kernel or
> different memory for each device file?
Could I recommend against /dev names as inexact as `line', could something
more precise be thought of?
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