Thanks sojan for making the difference clear.
Where can you find the major and minor numbers for kernel modules.


Rajesh

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:03:59PM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>If you have insmod in in the init scripts, the module will be loaded every
>time restart.
>If you use /etc/conf.modules, the autoloader will load the module only
>when an application opens the particular device file entry.
>
>Here is a silly example..
>In conf.modules, one of the lines I have is
>alias char-major-81 videodev
>
>So when an application makes an open call to a device file with major

-- 
Rajesh Fowkar


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