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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.

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