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From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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According to Alexander Viro:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, James Simmons wrote:
> > I would use write except we use write to draw into the framebuffer. If I
> > write to the framebuffer with that data the only thing that will happen is
> > I will get pretty colors on my screen. 
> 
> Yes. And we also use write to send data to printer. So what? Nobody makes
> you use the same file.

You're talking about /dev/fb0 vs. /dev/fb0ctl, right?

Would that driver authors routinely used such clean designs.

PS: No, readers, AFAIK, there is no such thing as /dev/fb0ctl.  Yet.
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