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## Character device

  Forum: Device Drivers
  Re: Categorization: Video Capture Driver? (Milind Changire)
  Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:55:40 GMT
  From: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

Yes, it should be a character device. You can't mount filesystems on it, and you don't want access to it to go through a block-oriented elevator-scheduled algorithm.