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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:50:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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Subject: Re: Why does the _DoubleTalk card_ not have a major assigned?
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> 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).

Maybe because it doesn't need a static major?  For funky hardware like the
Doubletalk for which the number of Linux users worldwide can probably be
counted on your fingers you can just grep /proc/devices for its allocated
major and create the /dev node on the fly.


Nicolas

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