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Date:      Thu, 26 May 2005 21:00:47 -0400
From:      Aziz Kezzou <french.linuxian@gmail.com>
To:        dave baukus <dbaukus@chiaro.com>,  freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Pseudo-device driver & select ??
Message-ID:  <37273927050526180026d23c7d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3727392705052617366706577c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3727392705052613381067f2a2@mail.gmail.com> <4296410C.1020108@chiaro.com> <3727392705052617366706577c@mail.gmail.com>

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> >
> > Aziz Kezzou wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I am trying to implement a small kld pseudo-device driver on FreeBSD =
5.3 that
> > > behaves just like a socket with regards to the select system call.
> > >
> > > Currently, I am using the sample echo pseudo-device driver from
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driver=
basics-char.html
> > >  as an example. However, whenever  I call select on the file
> > > descriptor of "/dev/echo" it always returns even when there is no dat=
a
> > > to be read.
> > >
> > > I looked at the socket code and it looks like I need to provide my ow=
n
> > > "fo_select" function in the fileops data structure. Am i right ? How
> > > do I do that ? The sample echo pseudo-device driver above uses
> > > "struct cdevsw"  instead...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -aziz
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> > >
> > look at spec_poll()
> > I beleive that when your device is opened the fileops{} will
> > point to the spec ops and you're code will be entered via
> > spec_poll() - now you just need to implement the poll/select notion
> > for your device.
> >
>=20
> Thanks,
> Actually, il turned out to be very simple.
> I needed only to provide a "d_poll" function as part of the structure
> cdevsw, as follows :
>=20
> /* Character device entry points */
> static struct cdevsw echo_cdevsw =3D {
>     .d_version =3D D_VERSION,
>     .d_open =3D echo_open,
>     .d_close =3D echo_close,
>     .d_read =3D echo_read,
>     .d_write =3D echo_write,
>     .d_poll =3D echo_poll,
>     .d_name =3D "echo",
> };
>=20
> with echo_poll :
> static  int
> echo_poll(struct cdev *dev, int events, struct thread *td)
> {
>=20
>   uprintf( "echo_poll called : data_available =3D %d!\n", data_available =
);
>   if(data_available =3D=3D 0)
>     return 0;
>   data_available =3D 0;
>   return 1;
> }
>=20

Now the question is, if I don't have any data available when select
(i.e d_poll ) is called, how do I notify select  when data arrives ?
looks like "d_poll" is called only once (the name is a bit misleading
here ;-) , isn't it ?

Any hints ?=20
Thanks.
-aziz



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