Describe how the comedi minor device numbers are split across comedi
devices and comedi subdevices.
Replace the current, long dead URL with an official URL for the Comedi
project.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbo...@mev.co.uk>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
index e56e00655153..1c5d2281efc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
@@ -1647,8 +1647,17 @@
0 = /dev/comedi0 First comedi device
1 = /dev/comedi1 Second comedi device
...
+ 47 = /dev/comedi47 48th comedi device
- See http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi.
+ Minors 48 to 255 are reserved for comedi subdevices with
+ pathnames of the form "/dev/comediX_subdY", where "X" is the
+ minor number of the associated comedi device and "Y" is the
+ subdevice number. These subdevice minors are assigned
+ dynamically, so there is no fixed mapping from subdevice
+ pathnames to minor numbers.
+
+ See http://www.comedi.org/ for information about the Comedi
+ project.
98 block User-mode virtual block device
0 = /dev/ubda First user-mode block device
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2.23.0
