On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : 1) Device driver in Netgraph node. When hardware is > : activated new Netgraph node is created and new > : kevent sent. devd (or something like devd) listens > : for these events and does something (loads firmware, > : activates device, etc.) > > Device drivers are not netgraph nodes. They will have a device_t > associated with them, which already sends a message via /dev/devctl to > devd. You can do anything you want with the results. There's no need > to reinvent the wheel that I'm almost done inventing. There's > absolutely no need to bring netgraph into it all, and doing so makes > it a less generic implementation. devices that are netgraph nodes may not have any entry in /dev and might only appear in the netgraph namespace.. e.g. if_ar.c if_sr.c > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
