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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:36:39 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Subject:   Re: How to best overload the fileops ?
Message-ID:  <201308291036.39807.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <5217DFC0.7070708@rawbw.com>
References:  <521508F4.6030502@rawbw.com> <1377290165.1111.85.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <5217DFC0.7070708@rawbw.com>

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On Friday, August 23, 2013 6:18:40 pm Yuri wrote:
> On 08/23/2013 13:36, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > I think the point is that devfs_ops_f provides several devfs-specific
> > methods and then "inherits" the rest by referencing the standard
> > vn_whatever functions.  Since John recommended that you expose the
> > fo_whatever methods, I think he's suggesting you build your ops table by
> > providing your own close method and fill in the rest of the table with
> > the now-exposed kqueue ops methods.
> 
> So you are suggesting to just make kqueue fileops public? This was my 
> first suggestion, and this was rejected by Roman Divacky (who was 
> supposed to check it in) as very ugly. I did this through the method 
> kqueue_ops(), not directly though.
> 
> So can we agree on way to be used here?

Making the individual kqueue methods public is more consistent with other
uses in the tree (notably devfs), so I think that is the best way.

-- 
John Baldwin



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