On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:15:03 -0800 (PST), Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The block device support for /dev/uba can be found > in $LINUXSRC/drivers/block/ub.c, and the file is dated > October 19, 2004, and so is relatively new. This file > ub.c defines the "/dev/ub" device name and assigns a > major device number of 125, from the experimental > range (see $LINUXSRC/Documentation/devicesd.txt, and > you will see that 125 is not assigned, so this is > pretty new).
I believe newer 2.6.x kernels expect to be hosted with udev[1], but don't take my word for it. FC3 for example needs udev, IIRC. Might be wrong though [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html -- JM Ibanez -- A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English. ----- http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
