[3919] in linux-net channel archive
Re: network device numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos E. R. do Valle)
Wed Jul 31 20:10:20 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:48:56 -0300 (GMT-0300)
From: "Carlos E. R. do Valle" <cerv@ime.usp.br>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960731133528.20949A-100000@KamaSutra.procyon.com>
First of all, thanx for all help.
I tried to take a look at devices.txt but didn't find anything on my
problem; there aren't any device numbers for modules (except for a
certain module request) nor for eth*. Two related things: there isn't a
'/dev/eth*' and when you look at the man page for MAKEDEV, it mentions
network devices, but says that 'linux used to have network devices in
/dev but that is no longer the case' (why not?).
As far as I know, the kernel keeps track of all devices through a hash
table and the major and minor numbers are the location of the device in that
table. Isn't there any way to access this?
>> I couldn't get this information anywhere ...
>> How do I find out what are the major and minor device numbers for a
>>network device driver loaded as a module? I'd like to make a character
>>special file for my driver ('mknod ...').
>> Please, send answers directly to me, since I'm not in linux-net.
>>
>>
>>Thanx
>>Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro do Valle
