Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:40:56 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: sridharv@ufl.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about /dev Message-ID: <0c6141841041012FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200201160407.XAA15222@anansi.vpha.health.ufl.edu> References: <200201160407.XAA15222@anansi.vpha.health.ufl.edu>
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 11:07 pm, sridharv@ufl.edu wrote:
> what do the device files in the /dev directory point to
> exactly. the device drivers for that device??
They just contain device numbers ("major" and "Minor") which tell the kernel
what device driver to load ("major," roughly speaking) and a little info to
pass the device driver ("minor", roughly speaking--actually both, I think).
They don't really "point" to anything per se and are quite meaningless on
their own if you don't have the map of device numbers -> drivers.
> have seen some material about this but its not too
> clear..
>
>
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