On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Al Chu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey A.B,
>
>> Al, Unfortunately SMS_ATN is KCS specific. So we can't create an
>> abstracted API.
>
> There's no reason other drivers won't have "interrupt callbacks" in the
> future.  We can abstract it by calling the API function something like
> "interrupt_callback".  The only driver supported with it would be KCS in
> the beginning.
>
> Al

Then lets create an API and return ENOTSUP erno for system interfaces
other than KCS (for now). It makes sense for higher level abstracted
API to call get-message-flags in addition. This function is already
asynchronous.  Application developers would prefer an async API over
callback framework.

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