something i was curious about way back when -- given that register_chrdev_region() and alloc_chrdev_region() allow one to specify a range of minor numbers desired that doesn't necessarily have to start at zero, is there a way from user space to see what those numbers are after the device registration is complete? obviously, looking at /proc/devices will always give you the major number, that part's easy. and if you look at fs/char_dev.c, it's the chrdev_show() routine that prints each major number and its registered name: === void chrdev_show(struct seq_file *f, off_t offset) { struct char_device_struct *cd; if (offset < CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE) { mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock); for (cd = chrdevs[offset]; cd; cd = cd->next) seq_printf(f, "%3d %s\n", cd->major, cd->name); mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock); } } === if it's a "misc" driver, then you already know that it's major number is 10, and the contents of /proc/misc will give you the single minor number allocated for it. but if, for some (bizarre) reason, you don't know what minor numbers the driver will try to allocate, is there a way to tell what they are after the fact? or is this just a silly question? rday p.s. for fun, a while back, i extended the chrdev_show() routine to append to each line the range of minor numbers that had been allocated, so that each line would read: #### name [a-b] i didn't have a compelling reason for that, i was just curious. and it occurred to me that if userspace programs parse that file for the first two fields, then having extra info at the end of each line might not be that disruptive, especially if adding it was a kernel config option. or maybe i'm making too much of this. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================