In message: <2070.1242926...@critter.freebsd.dk>
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <20090521.101537.864824728....@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).
It could, but right now it doesn't.
: 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.
We don't use the ethernet driver regex any more, since we base it all
on interface arrival in ifnet layer...
Warner
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