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Subject: Re: DEVICE POLLING
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:39:47 +0000
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On Iau, 2006-02-02 at 10:45 +0200, kasp wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've read that *BSD like systems support device polling:
> So, are there any feature like that in linux kernel supported?

The Linux kernel does similar things for high network loads. Some serial
hardware also supports that functionality (eg comtrol rocketport).