svn commit: r192535 - head/sys/kern
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu May 21 17:17:05 UTC 2009
In message <20090521.101537.864824728.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>Right now, the devctl_notify() is what gets it into devd. However,
>I'd always viewed devd as having multiple event sources and not just
>from the /dev/devctl device.
Correct, but kqueuing /dev is not nearly as expressiv as devctl,
where the protocol has space where the device driver could pass
useful information to devd(8).
For instance, I find the regexp matching of ethernet drivers very,
very silly: the device driver should just tell devd(8) that it is
an ethernet, so that we don't have this non-documented registry of
device driver names.
Poul-Henning
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