From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Subject: Re: adapter, what's in a name
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:51:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BBF811.7060007@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BBF532.4030704@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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
-=====-==--- --=- =-=--
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 23:16 Karl Dahlke
2008-02-20 9:38 ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-20 9:51 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-02-20 10:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-20 13:29 ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-20 10:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-20 14:37 Karl Dahlke
2008-02-20 15:25 ` Frans Pop
2008-02-20 15:28 ` Stefan Richter
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