From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 29 23:19:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA03084 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 23:19:14 -0800 Received: from main.gbdata.com (dial4.phoenix.net [199.3.234.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA02968 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 23:17:40 -0800 Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA05810 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:17:31 -0600 From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199511300717.BAA05810@main.gbdata.com> Subject: A test device driver To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:17:25 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: gclarkii@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1134 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Would anyone feel "bad" if we put a `test` device driver in the tree in /sys/i386/isa ? This could be nothing more than a dummy device that would open, close and accept ioctls. We could use this to document the new devfs stuff (which is driving me batty...:)) and other things which have to be done for a basic device to function. We could have two of these... One that shows how a block device is setup and another for character. Side-Track: If "possible" I would like to see more comments on ANY new things that go into the kernel. Examples of these are devfs, vm-buffer cache, procfs and so on. Alot of people have the Daemon book, but we have deviated so far from this, that it is starting to be worse than useless to even have it. These comments can either be in the source files OR they can go into a seperate file in the handbook area. I'm willing to put these into SGML if you send me the ascii versions. Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | gclarkii@FreeBSD.ORG | FreeBSD FAQ at ftp.FreeBSD.ORG in ~pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii