From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 18 0:32:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121C937B405; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:32:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBI8WCa15159; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:32:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBI8W5M83297; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:32:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200112180832.fBI8W5M83297@harmony.village.org> To: Paul Richards Subject: Re: Anybody working on devd? Cc: Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2001 03:14:55 GMT." <12520000.1008386095@lobster.originative.co.uk> References: <12520000.1008386095@lobster.originative.co.uk> <200111272301.fARN1nj04294@mass.dis.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:32:05 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <12520000.1008386095@lobster.originative.co.uk> Paul Richards writes: : If eventd is a generic handler for all kernel events then all sorts of : things can be hooked into it. What would be needed is an api call in the : kernel to signal an event and then any part of the kernel would have a : mechanism to cause an userland action to occur. I fear this will be too general a daemon to every be written. There are too many modules that will goo up the works. But I suppose that someone will prove me wrong... : I think focussing the design around device type events would be a big : mistake in the long run. I agree, that's why the lowest layers of what we've been working on aren't device centric. At least the /dev/event that I've been working on.... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message