devices in /dev

[Janina Sajka]

If you're really into these things, Eric, you might want to start
somewhere like the Linux Documentation Project, http://www.tldp.org.
Perhaps you might start with the "From Boot to Bash Prompt" HOWTO
document for context? I really don't know a specific URI to point to
about device creation, management and its history on unix/linux.

I do know one thing, Fedora has recently moved to udev, and you might
want to drop that term into Google.

Eric Kosten writes:
> Hello to all.  First can anyone let me know what these items do and or for?
> I know what the midi, snd, and some of the others are:
> 
> Module Size Used by
> 
> vfat 14785 1
> 
> fat 45409 1 vfat
> 
> autofs4 24005 0
> 
> i2c_dev 10433 0
> 
> i2c_core 22079 1 i2c_dev
> 
> sunrpc 160421 1
> 
> dm_mod 54741 0
> 
> button 6481 0
> 
> battery 8517 0
> 
> ac 4805 0
> 
> md5 4033 1
> 
> ipv6 232705 8
> 
> usblp 12993 0
> 
> uhci_hcd 31449 0
> 
> ehci_hcd 31685 0
> 
> hw_random 5589 0
> 
> emu10k1_gp 3649 0
> 
> snd_intel8x0 34829 0
> 
> gameport 4801 2 emu10k1_gp,snd_intel8x0
> 
> snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
> 
> snd_emu10k1 93769 0
> 
> snd_rawmidi 26725 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1
> 
> snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
> 
> snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss
> 
> snd_pcm 97993 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss
> 
> snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
> 
> snd_seq_device 8137 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
> 
> snd_ac97_codec 64401 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1
> 
> snd_page_alloc 9673 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> 
> snd_util_mem 4801 1 snd_emu10k1
> 
> snd_hwdep 9413 1 snd_emu10k1
> 
> snd 54053 11
> snd_intel8x0,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_o
> ss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep
> 
> soundcore 9889 1 snd
> 
> b44 22341 0
> 
> mii 4673 1 b44
> 
> floppy 58609 1
> 
> speakup_dectlk 5329 0
> 
> speakupmain 57125 1 speakup_dectlk
> 
> pcspkr 4001 0
> 
> ext3 116809 1
> 
> jbd 74969 1 ext3
> 
> second:
> 
> under fedora, the adduser -u for user name and -p for password, the -p
> option wants a set of numbers or something.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric
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