Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:04:18 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dave Rufino <dr263@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: statefulness in character device drivers Message-ID: <46358.1007802258@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 09:02:08 GMT." <Pine.SOL.4.33.0112080900220.17158-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <Pine.SOL.4.33.0112080900220.17158-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Dave R ufino writes: >> Most likely he means a per-open(2) opaque datum that is kept in >> struct file and passed to the underlying routines. > >Sorry, unbelievably bad at explaining myself. Per-open data is what i >meant. The reason I'm interested is it would make a full nvidia driver >port quite a bit easier. Sorry, I know of no current plans which adress this. The issue is non-trivial to fix because we currently don't pass dup(2) events through the vnode layer. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46358.1007802258>