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Subject: Re: assignment of major number to serial driver -2.6.x kernels
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "V. ANANDA KRISHNAN" <mansarov@us.ibm.com>
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On Maw, 2005-07-19 at 10:53 -0500, V. ANANDA KRISHNAN wrote:
>   Also I would like to know the procedure (and related info) to apply
> for getting a static number (major/minor) for devices in device drivers.
> Is this practice continued still?

If you want device nodes you still need device numbers (www.lanana.org)