Hi, On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:44:44AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Michael Casadevall, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 00:22:55 -0400, a écrit :
> 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). Well, if it was only *additional* operations that are required, there would be no problem -- that's what ioctl()s are used for. The point is rather that for network devices, the *standard* IO operations make no sense. Admittedly, Linux is not quite consistent there: DRM for example does use a device file, although (AFAIK) there is no standard IO either... -antrik-
