and the back end Bluetooth device driver. The device driver now
allocates a suitable buffer on behalf of the bthci driver, and bthci
fills the buffer before despatch.
This saves an ugly temporary allocation (in bthci) and memory copy (in
the USB driver) per write, and also works better with the
sockets-based interface I'm experimenting with.
actually functional driver. It provides user access through a character
device to a Bluetooth HCI capable driver.
The device interface is the same (open/read/write) as the RAW HCI socket
(socket/recv/send) interface provided by the Linux and FreeBSD netgraph
Bluetooth stacks. This allows a (very small) number of diagnostic programs to
be trivially ported and actually work.
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.
nathanw