<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Nav Kamal <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:navkamal90@gmail.com" target="_blank">navkamal90@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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 ?</p>



<p dir="ltr"></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please always cc kernelnewbies in reply.<br></div><div>Do not top post(<a href="http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html">http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html</a>)<br>

</div><div>I would suggest reading this article about udev, things have changed a bit <br><a href="http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/180950-udev">http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/180950-udev</a><br>

</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Navkamal Rakra</p><div class=""><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2013 6:33 PM, &quot;Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:chambilkethakur@gmail.com" target="_blank">chambilkethakur@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">


<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Nav Kamal <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:navkamal90@gmail.com" target="_blank">navkamal90@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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 ? </p>




</blockquote><div><a href="http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-3-sect-2" target="_blank">http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-3-sect-2</a> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





<p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Navkamal Rakra</p>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thank you <br>Warm Regards<br>Anuz<br>
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