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Message-ID: <47BBF811.7060007@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:51:13 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@...cast.net>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: adapter, what's in a name
I wrote:
> - There are other types of ABIs for I/O (character device files, block
> device files), message-based(?) I/O (netlink), configuration (configfs),
> and more.
PS: Device files are not only suitable for bulk I/O via read and write,
they are also capable of event notification by means of poll and select
and of other kinds of I/O like configuration related I/O by means of ioctl.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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