On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 Peter.Memishian at Sun.COM wrote:
> Don't we already have that with sysevents (ddi_log_sysevent(9F))?
Ah cute :).
What about non-device-driver code that doesn't have a dev_info though?
IIUC it seems to be a way for drivers to get mostly-opaque stuff to
driver-specific userland code, rather than a generic kernel->userspace
event reporting channel.
Think 'PF_ROUTE on steroids' type of thing, or essentially PF_ROUTE but
with wider, more future-proof type and attribute fields (and maybe a way
for listeners to 'subscribe' to certain classes of events) - extensible
enough to use for reporting all the other classes of events which the
NWAM lists (tunnel states, dladm related events, wifi events ("New AP,
ESSID: ....., <etc>").
regards,
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Paul Jakma,
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