Major and minor numbers

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Nav Kamal <navkamal90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks but am already studying from this book. What  I understand from
> this is every driver is associated with a device and each of this relation
> has a unique major number associated with it and every device has a unique
> minor number which a kernel uses to reference it. Am I correct ?
>
>
Please always cc kernelnewbies in reply.
Do not top post(http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html)
I would suggest reading this article about udev, things have changed a bit
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/180950-udev

> Regards,
> Navkamal Rakra
> On Nov 26, 2013 6:33 PM, "Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar" <
> chambilkethakur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Nav Kamal <navkamal90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Am a little stuck at major and minor numbers used to reference the
>>> connection between device file and device driver. Can please somebody
>>> theoretically explain how they work ?
>>>
>> http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-3-sect-2
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Navkamal Rakra
>>>
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>> --
>> Thank you
>> Warm Regards
>> Anuz
>>
>


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Thank you
Warm Regards
Anuz
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