Re: Some questions about the translator that helps open the device

[Samuel Thibault]

Michael Casadevall, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 00:22:55 -0400, a écrit :
> Maybe this falls under the "I'm an idiot" category, but isn't netio 
> essentially
> the same as stream io? You open a socket, read in contents from the stream, it
> blocks if its too full, etc.

Well, I guess that if linux didn't add eth0 to /dev, that must be
because there is more to it than just read/write (like MAC address
configuration etc).

> The entropy kernel driver used the streamio API internally.

Sure, since that's a stream of bytes :)
BTW, you still haven't submitted a fixed patch (the list of concerns is
still on the Savannah patch entry).

Samuel