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Subject: Re: svn commit: r278479 - in head: etc sys/kern
From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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On 10 Feb 2015, at 18:30, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> wrote:
>=20
> Another thing I had in mind (which is more work) was to abstract the =
devctl kernel code in an API which could make it easy to fan out the =
notifications to multiple /dev devices.  However, that may be overkill.

This kind of notification is something that kdbus is increasingly being =
used for on Linux.  The primitive allows events to originate either in =
the kernel or in userspace and to be sent either point-to-point or to a =
bloom filter set of recipients (so you occasionally get some messages =
you're not expecting, but hopefully don't get too many spurious =
wakeups).

David