Re: Why does the _DoubleTalk card_ not have a major assigned?

From: Nicolas Pitre (nico@cam.org)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 16:50:50 EST


On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> This is indeed true for the Comtrol Rocketport card but there's no
> major for the DoubleTalk card (and this is the card I wanted to write
> about).

Maybe because it doesn't need a static major? For funky hardware like the
Doubletalk for which the number of Linux users worldwide can probably be
counted on your fingers you can just grep /proc/devices for its allocated
major and create the /dev node on the fly.

Nicolas

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