kqueue provides a stateful and efficient event notification framework
currently supported events include socket, file, directory, fifo,
pipe, tty and device changes, and monitoring of processes and signals
kqueue is supported by all writable filesystems in NetBSD tree
(with exception of Coda) and all device drivers supporting poll(2)
based on work done by Jonathan Lemon for FreeBSD
initial NetBSD port done by Luke Mewburn and Jason Thorpe
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
- Do FIELD_SET correctly for scalar types.
- Add some basic table ops.
- Push error reporting back into iop.c.
- Add some field index and (yet more) LAN defs to i2o.h.
- More SCSI port defs.
- Nuke vtophys().
- Release resources in iop_init() upon failure.
- Don't use a message wrapper when initalising the outbound FIFO.
- A couple of field size/endian fixes.
- Just use iop_post() when we don't need special handling.
- IM_DISCARD is now pointless, since we don't queue at the driver level.
- Map data transfers from/to userspace directly.
- A few comment and stylistic changes.
- Adhere to the spec better in some places. Also, work around some quirks
noted in the Linux I2O code.
- Register event handlers for the executive and RBS devices.
- Fix a number of buglets and tidy a little.
- Implement a message pass-through interface and some other useful ioctls.
more testing with different configurations, and work in a number of areas
(which I'm not able to do for a little while), but is at least functional
and stable on i386 with DPT adapters.
simonb