svn commit: r192535 - head/sys/kern

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu May 21 21:44:55 UTC 2009


In message <20090521.144043.-501541558.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:

>: 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).
>
>It could, but right now it doesn't.

My point is that kqueue cannot do it, ever, therefore standardizing
on devctl seems the most future-proof choice.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.


More information about the svn-src-head mailing list