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<concept id="GUID-8798F896-E0CB-4B9B-8F88-3C8B58574213" xml:lang="en"><title>The
Physical Channel</title><shortdesc>This document describes how a logical device communicates with
a physical device over a physical channel.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<section id="GUID-A759AA8D-945A-4150-822A-C22DFAE8F5C9">           <p>The
physical channel defines the interface between the logical device and the
physical device. Typically, this interface is different for each device family
and, therefore, the device driver framework does not require a particular
type of interface. The only requirement is that the physical channel class
is derived from <xref href="GUID-4FCB6127-84F3-38F6-8AD2-FC3B94D67DA3.dita"><apiname>DBase</apiname></xref>. It is up to the driver writer to
define the physical channel class. </p> <fig id="GUID-8C470617-1743-546F-A0A4-A20B1480539D">
<title>                 Device driver physical channel classes           
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</fig>     </section>
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