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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:33:25 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: "George G. Davis" <davis_g@attbi.com>
Cc: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>, device@lanana.org,
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Subject: Why does the _DoubleTalk card_ not have a major assigned?
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:16:52PM -0500, George G. Davis wrote:
> 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. : )

I was thinking about something else related to the Comtrol Rocketport 
when writing my mail, and I mixed the two things...  :-(

Please do a s/Comtrol Rocketport/DoubleTalk/g in my initial mail.

> 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
>                     ...

This is indeed true for the Comtrol Rocketport card but there's no
major for the DoubleTalk card (and this is the card I wanted to write
about).

> Regards,
> George

cu
Adrian

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