[techtalk] Major device numbers

[Dan Nguyen]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 12:07:17PM +0200, Britta Koch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to create the loobback device, but don't know what major
> device number to give it. Any pointers to doc on it? There's nothing in
> the ls or mknod manpage, I'm afraid, neither does any HOWTO on my system
> sound like it has anything.
> 

Standard devices type/major/minor numbers can be found in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

(assuming your kernel source tree is in /usr/src/linux)

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