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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:34:56 -0400
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To: SJ <sandejain@rocketmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Device driver questions
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SJ wrote:
> 
> 2. Whats the use of device_ops structure and what does
>    "ops" stand for?

"ops" definitely stands for "operations". I can't say off the top
of my head what this structure is but most probably a collection
of pointers to the functions of a particular driver which implement 
the device driver API.

-SB

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