Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:33:25 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Why does the _DoubleTalk card_ not have a major assigned? |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:16:52PM -0500, George G. Davis wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Perhaps it's a silly question but I'd like to know why it is the way it > > is: > > > > The 2.2, 2.4 and 2.5 kernels include a driver for the Comtrol Rocketport > > card (drivers/char/dtlk.c) which uses a local major (it does a > > "register_chrdev(0, "dtlk", &dtlk_fops); > > ). Is there a reason why it doesn't have a fixed major assigned? > > Huh?: > > dtlk.c - DoubleTalk PC driver for Linux > > That doesn't look like the Comtrol Rocketport (drivers/char/rocket.c) > driver to me. : )
I was thinking about something else related to the Comtrol Rocketport when writing my mail, and I mixed the two things... :-(
Please do a s/Comtrol Rocketport/DoubleTalk/g in my initial mail.
> Meanwhile 2.4.19 Documentation/devices.txt shows: > > 46 char Comtrol Rocketport serial card > 0 = /dev/ttyR0 First Rocketport port > 1 = /dev/ttyR1 Second Rocketport port > ...
This is indeed true for the Comtrol Rocketport card but there's no major for the DoubleTalk card (and this is the card I wanted to write about).
> Regards, > George
cu Adrian
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