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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Is Kernel module is the same as a device driver? Post 302519639 by Perderabo on Wednesday 4th of May 2011 01:22:56 PM
Old 05-04-2011
Well I didn't really "need" any particular major number. Somehow "1" just came quickly to mind as something to use as an example. Then I was just showing the link betwen the driver and the device file (which is major number). As I said, the drivers are listed in that /usr/include/linux/major.h file so I guess you could say that "maps it out". I really don't know what info you're looking for... Smilie
 

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MOUNTPOINT(1)							   User Commands						     MOUNTPOINT(1)

NAME
mountpoint - see if a directory is a mountpoint SYNOPSIS
mountpoint [-q] [-d] directory mountpoint -x device DESCRIPTION
mountpoint checks if the directory is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file. OPTIONS
-h, --help Print help and exit. -q, --quiet Be quiet - don't print anything. -d, --fs-devno Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout. -x, --devno Print major/minor device number of the blockdevice on stdout. EXIT STATUS
Zero if the directory is a mountpoint, non-zero if not. AUTHOR
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> ENVIRONMENT
LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=0xffff enables debug output. NOTES
The util-linux mountpoint implementation was written from scratch for libmount. The original version for sysvinit suite was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg. SEE ALSO
mount(8) AVAILABILITY
The mountpoint command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux June 2011 MOUNTPOINT(1)
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