Thanks, I have been using this book as a source, and it is a great one at that. I thought I read the char device chapter enough times to get what I needed out of it but apparently not. I just reread it and realized that my answer was there.
Thanks again, Jon On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:13 +0300, Vitaliy Ivanov wrote: > On 7/10/07, Jon Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am relatively new to linux device development. And want to understand > > Linux conventions. > > > > Suppose I have a PCI card that is represented in the system by a > > character device. > > > > If I have two of those PCI cards in the system when the driver module > > loads, is it convention to have two different major numbers, or have one > > major number and two different minor numbers? > > > > Thanks, > > Jon > > You can start your kernel hacking way from ldd. It can be found at: > http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ > > There are a few other books by R. Love or Greg KH that you can read. > > Such questions are fully covered there. > > Best, > Vitaliy > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
