Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
17 May 2001 23:12:00 +0200


hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 16.05.01 in <3B03137A.80221C59@transmeta.com>:

> At some point something talks to the device -- in this case, it's the
> SCSI layer. Follow the interfaces in the kernel and it becomes obvious.

rc = sys_iskind(int filehandle, const char *driverkind)

rc = 0 or Esomething

Think of it as a generalization of isatty(). Maybe

#define isatty(f) sys_iskind(f, "tty")

:-;

MfG Kai
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