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Re: USB printer difficulties
Thanks Nathan!
On Friday 04 January 2002 04:33, Nathan Orenstein wrote:
> wht the heck are major/minor numbers?!?
>
> From Rubini's "LINUX Device Drivers", P.43, 44:
>
> Char devices are accessed through names in the file system, usually located
> in the /dev directory. Device files are identified by "c" in the first
> column of the output of command ls -l. You see two numbers, before the date
> of last modification, {seperated by a comma) on device file entries. These
> numbers are the major and minor numbers. The major number identifies the
> driver associated with the device. Adding a new driver to the system means
> assigning a major number to it.
> The minor number is only used by the device driver. It provides the driver
> with a way to distinguish between multiple devices which it may control.
>
> I hope this answers the question.
>
> Nathan
>
>
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