Subject: RE: Multpile serial port adapter on 425?
To: Kevin Currie <aa847@freenet.carleton.ca>
From: michael smith <mike@smith.net.au>
List: port-hp300
Date: 07/10/1997 22:54:20
Kevin Currie stands accused of saying:
>       I'm using the latest snapshot-I what are the device files called?  How are
>they created- MAKEDEV??

The device nodes are called whatever you want to call them; you can
make them with 'mknod'; the apci driver has major number 31, the
ports are probably minors 0 and 1.

(Jason improved my code quite a lot there, but no docco.)

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Mike Smith  Unix hardware collector  http://www.smith.net.au/~mike
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