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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:51:13 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: adapter, what's in a name
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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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