From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 18:42:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 18:42:14 -0400 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]:52752 "EHLO mailout04.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 18:41:58 -0400 Date: 17 May 2001 23:12:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <811op9uXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <3B03137A.80221C59@transmeta.com> Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh6 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <200105152141.f4FLff300686@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200105162341.f4GNfvT12861@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3B0310A4.87138FB5@transmeta.com> <200105162349.f4GNnSJ13049@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3B03137A.80221C59@transmeta.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 16.05.01 in <3B03137A.80221C59@transmeta.com>: > At some point something talks to the device -- in this case, it's the > SCSI layer. Follow the interfaces in the kernel and it becomes obvious. rc = sys_iskind(int filehandle, const char *driverkind) rc = 0 or Esomething Think of it as a generalization of isatty(). Maybe #define isatty(f) sys_iskind(f, "tty") :-; MfG Kai