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List:       ucsimm
Subject:    RE: [uCsimm] Fifos in Frank example
From:       Paugam Luc <PAUGAML () thmulti ! com>
Date:       2000-02-29 15:43:36
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Hi,

Excuse me for this stupid question, but what is Frank example ?
Where did it come from ?

Regards
Luc

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stuart Hughes [SMTP:sehughes@zentropix.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:52 PM
> To:	ucsimm@uClinux.com
> Subject:	Re: [uCsimm] Fifos in Frank example
> 
> OEM industrialisation wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Kwonsk,
> > 
> > thank you for your help in my fifo creation problems.
> > First it worked very well with the major 63.
> > 
> > But I have encountered a problem with the major 150.
> > Your patch doesn't modify the MAX_CHRDEV and
> > the MAX_BLKDEV in major.h
> > I think it should be higgher than 128.
> > 
> > I tried 255 and it seems to work like before.
> > 
> > Maybe it could be useful to put it in your patch3,
> > for people who starts in linux like me.
> > 
> > Thank you for your work, and thanks to Stuart too,
> > 
> > Freddy
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> It's probably okay to stick with major number 63.  We found it
> conflicted with kdebug (a mechanism for debugging kerneld) try:
> /sbin/modprobe -c and thats why it got changed.  In practice this is
> (kdebug) hardly ever used so it is probably not a real problem.  I only
> pointed it out as later releases of RTL/RTAI (Linux 2.2) have
> standardised on major number 150 and so it could be confusing if you
> were to try out the later x86 stuff.
> 
> Regards, Stuart
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