Re: Easy question about drivers

In message [ref] you write:

Are video cards considered character devices?

Yes.

In simple words, a device is either a block device, or a charcter
device.

A block device is something which can hold a filesystem.

You cannot make a filesystem on a video card.

Ergo: a video card is a character device.

Wolfgang Denk

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