Re: your mail

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:39:31 +0000 (GMT)

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> I have been writing a device driver for a specialty board we use here at my
> workplace. I am writing it as a module. Because of the possibility of a
> conflict with a MAJOR number, I want have the module ask for the next
> available MAJOR number. This causes problems because I have to provide a
> script which creates the device inode files in /dev.

This doesnt help you at all. Suppose you ask for the next number and take
the one a later module will need. There are a set of major numbers for
private/experimental use. Nobody should be shipping any actual production
drivers using these numbers.

Alan

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