From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 10:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFC137B404 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E747743E3B for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9PHBCpk006266; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:11:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:09:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20021025.110925.53645480.imp@bsdimp.com> To: reichert@numachi.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com> References: <20021025004026.M22898@numachi.com> <20021024.230834.10710963.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com> Brian Reichert writes: : On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > devinfo will also deal with a device that arrives 3 days after the : > system has booted. : : Devinfo is looking to be _far_ more encompassing that what I : originally wanted/needed, and look forward to 5.x (-CURRENT or : otherwise) to be stable enough for me to use on my workstation. : : In fact, if devinfo has some sort of event-reporting mechanism : (kevent filter, maybe), then I can _really_ go to town... Right now there's /dev/devctl that reports one stream of such events to userland. I should upgrade it to report multiple stream, but not for 5.0. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message