[patch] turning devctl into a "multiple openable" device

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 1 14:53:01 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:41:25 am Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2011 13:43:20 Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > With the help of cognet, I wrote a patch to turn devctl into a multiple
> > openable device, that mean that it will allow to open /dev/devctl in
> > multiple programs, for example hald and everythings that want to receive
> > notification from the device won't need to depend on haveing devd running.
> > 
> > here is the patch:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/devctl_multi_open.diff
> > 
> > regards,
> > bapt
> 
> Comment:
> 
> Is the track-close flag set for the devfs sw?

Not, it uses the far-superior devfs_set_cdevpriv().

-- 
John Baldwin


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