Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:49:31 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Manu Abraham <manu@kromtek.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor numbers under 2.6
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:19:32PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Can somebody clarify a question that i have ?
> 
> 	Say under 2.4 kernel, char device drivers had a minor number of int. In the 
> 2.6 kernels, this number was increased to 20 bits from 8 bits. Under 2.6 i 
> could use "mknod -c major, minor". 
> 
> 	How can i achieve something similar with 2.6 taking into consideration that i 
> have to create more than 255 minors ?

The same way:
	# mknod foo c 100 10000
	# ls -l foo 
	crw-r--r--  1 root root 100, 10000 Jun  2 07:48 foo

Just make sure you have a up to date glibc.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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