charcter driver interface for a Block Device

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To: "Kernelnewbies" <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: charcter driver interface for a Block Device
From: "anurekh saxena" <anurekh@calsoftinc.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:50:24 +0530
Original-recipient: rfc822;kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Sender: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org

hi,

i wanted to know why Block drivers have a charcter driver interface for IOCTLS when such requests can be done without it. Take for example the LVM driver in Linux.It has a character driver interface just for handlng IOCTLs . It does that in the block driver too.

thanx

anurekh

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