Subject: Re: /dev/?
From: Dr. David Gilbert (gilbertd@treblig.org)
Date: Fri Sep 10 1999 - 09:54:20 PDT
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mark Henry wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Consider a situation where two ethernet card drivers of different
> manufacture (in this case, the DEC tulip and a 3Com 3C905) are compiled as
> modules and then inserted at a later time into the kernel.
>
> How do these devices get an entry in the /dev folder and what decides the
> name of the device? (and for that matter how does any device get an entry in
> the /dev folder?)
You never get /dev entries for ethernet under Linux. But what you do get
are devices visible in ifconfig. The names are decided by the order in
which the modules are loaded. The first will be eth0, the next eth1 etc
Dave
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