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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:26:16 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Belinda <belinda_ye@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: major and minor device number
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:20:02PM -0800, Belinda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a little confused about major and minor device
> number. When writing device driver, how to use them? 
> 

You probably want to read "how to write a linux device driver" which is
probably at www.kernelnewbies.org...

The documentation isn't named exactly as mentioned above, but it's similar...

Mike
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