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Doug McNash wrote:
>>What's a "major/minor device number"?
> 
> 
> The short answer is that it is simply an index into a kernel table
> filled with driver (function) entry points.  A call to
> open("/dev/somedev",..) will execute this code to prep the device. 
> Likewise the minor number usually indexes a data structure for a
> specific instance of a device.

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