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## Character device drivers and SMP Linux

  Forum: Device Drivers
  Keywords: SMP
  Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 10:45:21 GMT
  From: Mirko Kaffka <M.Kaffka@fz-rossendorf.de>

`Is there anything I have to keep in mind when I am writing a character device driver that is supposed to run on a multi processor machine? Is there any difference between device drivers for a single processor Linux and SMP Linux? Thanks in advance, Mirko`