proc_devices(5)

proc_devices5

Major numbers and device groups

Overview

/proc/devices

Text listing of major numbers and device groups. This can be used by MAKEDEV scripts for consistency with the kernel.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.