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Subject: Re: statefulness in character device drivers
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [011207 07:57] wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Most likely he means a per-open(2) opaque datum that is kept in
> struct file and passed to the underlying routines.

Sorry, unbelievably bad at explaining myself. Per-open data is what i
meant. The reason I'm interested is it would make a full nvidia driver
port quite a bit easier.

Thanks,
David


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