From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 22 1:39: 7 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA9937B404; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 1AF6D532C; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:38:59 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , rwatson@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h route.h rtsock.c src/share/man/man4 route.4 src/sbin/route route.c References: <20020121103822.A16527@sunbay.com> <20020121173406.A77567@sunbay.com> <20020121.085527.98102760.imp@village.org> <20020121183947.A83821@sunbay.com> <20020122110033.D78733@sunbay.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Jan 2002 10:38:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020122110033.D78733@sunbay.com> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov writes: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:08:46PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Could drivers that don't get asynchronous notification of media status > > changes, poll the media status once a second? > How this is better than polling media status of a single interested > device from userland once a second? 1) simpler to implement in the kernel 2) you avoid polling devices that are capable of asynchronous notification DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message