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To: Dave Rufino <dr263@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: statefulness in character device drivers 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:51:51 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 14:52:14 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.SOL.4.33.0112071347320.26697-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Dave R
ufino writes:
>Hi,
>
>I remember some discussions a while ago about adding statefulness to
>the character device driver layer. What's the consensus now ? Is it going
>to be added, and if so, when ?

Uhm, I don't hink I understand your question here...

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