cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
4 /dev/vc/0
4 tty
4 ttyS
5 /dev/tty
5 /dev/console
5 /dev/ptmx
5 ttyprintk
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
13 input
21 sg
29 fb
89 i2c
99 ppdev
108 ppp
116 alsa
128 ptm
136 pts
180 usb
189 usb_device
195 nvidia-frontend
226 drm
245 nvidia-uvm
246 nvlink_core
247 mei
248 hidraw
249 bsg
250 watchdog
251 rtc
252 dimmctl
253 ndctl
254 tpm
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
259 blkext
7 loop
8 sd
9 md
11 sr
65 sd
66 sd
67 sd
68 sd
69 sd
70 sd
71 sd
128 sd
129 sd
130 sd
131 sd
132 sd
133 sd
134 sd
135 sd
252 device-mapper
253 virtblk
254 mdp
How is it possible to have same numbers for different devices ? For example: char device "vcs" and block device "loop"
