Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu NOT working with devfs

[Martin Moeller]

Fredag 11 februar 2005 14:12 skrev Pavel Janík:
>    From: Martin Moeller <address@hidden>
>    Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:35:25 +0100
>
>    > It seems to be in use on SUSE LINUX 9.2 as well:
>    >
>    > crw-------   1 root   root    254,   0 2004-10-02 10:38 ipmi0
>
> This only means that if you actually use IPMI, your tools will communicate
> with kernel using character device with major 254.
>
> If you do not use IPMI and thus do not have kernel modules loaded, you are
> OK. Please verify by:
>
> cat /proc/devices
>
> in section "Character device:" if major 254 is already in use. On my
> system, e.g.:
>
> Character devices:
> ...
> 254 pcmcia
It says:

martin:/tmp # cat /proc/devices | grep 254
254 mdp

I doubt I'm using IPMI as such, but wouldn't there be a conflict if I had two 
device nodes of the same major and minor number?

I used the '250' patch and am quite happily installing Debian Sarge in a KQemu 
Qemu at the moment...

/Martin.