Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:55:25 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Cc: device@lanana.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why does the Comtrol Rocketport card not have a major assigned?
Message-ID: <20021204205525.GE2544@fs.tum.de>
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Perhaps it's a silly question but I'd like to know why it is the way it 
is:

The 2.2, 2.4 and 2.5 kernels include a driver for the Comtrol Rocketport 
card (drivers/char/dtlk.c) which uses a local major (it does a
  "register_chrdev(0, "dtlk", &dtlk_fops);
). Is there a reason why it doesn't have a fixed major assigned?

TIA
Adrian

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