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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:16:52 -0500
From: "George G. Davis" <davis_g@attbi.com>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
CC: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>, device@lanana.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does the Comtrol Rocketport card not have a major assigned?
References: <20021204205525.GE2544@fs.tum.de>
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> 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?

Huh?:

	dtlk.c - DoubleTalk PC driver for Linux

That doesn't look like the Comtrol Rocketport (drivers/char/rocket.c)
driver to me. : )

Meanwhile 2.4.19 Documentation/devices.txt shows:

 46 char        Comtrol Rocketport serial card
                  0 = /dev/ttyR0        First Rocketport port
                  1 = /dev/ttyR1        Second Rocketport port
                    ...

--
Regards,
George

> TIA
> Adrian
> 
> --
> 
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