Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:44:51 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: scottl@samsco.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, attilio@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, kostikbel@gmail.com Subject: Re: svn commit: r192535 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <3219.1242942291@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40:43 CST." <20090521.144043.-501541558.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20090521.144043.-501541558.imp@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@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.
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