[lcdproc] "named pipe" is different from /dev/lcd kernel code . :-)

[Matthew J Dainty]

William W. Ferrell mentioned the following:

| I thought it was going to be one driver per display.
| 
| So if you've got two MtxOrb displays, you load two instances of the
| driver, one per device. LCDd handles the rest (i.e. merge them into one
| big screen or letting them act as two displays).

Technically, when you open a library twice, it will actually return the
handle to the already opened copy. So one instance will control all MtxOrb
displays, etc. It really isn't that difficult to code the library this way
to keep count, and if you think about it, if you drive more displays, say
3 CrystalFontz displays as someone wants to do, LCDproc will become more
efficient with its memory usage. :)

Matt



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