Writing Device Drivers for Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: September 2014
 
 

Minor Nodes and Minor Numbers

Drivers are responsible for managing their minor number namespace. For example, the sd driver needs to export eight character minor nodes and eight block minor nodes to the file system for each disk. Each minor node represents either a block interface or a character interface to a portion of the disk. The getinfo(9E) entry point informs the system about the mapping from minor number to device instance (see getinfo() Entry Point).