On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:59:25PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
> 
> 	After I saw a presentation at BSDCon 2000 last year about the
> 	implementation of kqueue in FreeBSD, a few NetBSD developers
> 	present decided that it's definately worth a look for NetBSD.
> 
> 	kqueue (aka `kevent') is a generic and scalable event
> 	notification facility, developed by Jonathan Lemon of FreeBSD.
> 
> 	It's generic: you can monitor socket events, filesystem events
> 	such as `file ready to read', vnode operations such as `file has been
> 	deleted', `directory has been modified', signals delivered to a
> 	process, process creation/exit, etc.
> 
> If you want to claim it is a generic event mechanism it also
> needs to support device events:  insertion, removal, errors,
> etc.

We could add a new event type (EVFILT_DEVICE (?)) and add support into
various device layers to raise this event. I have no objection to
doing this; it makes perfect sense to me.

I think the reason why jlemon classified it as generic was that:
a) it already supports a bunch of different type of events, and
b) it's fairly simple to add new event types, even if currently it
   requires adding new types to <sys/event.h>. I have thoughts
   about how to make this easier for dynamic event addition
   (e.g., for lkm's); they need to be fleshed out a bit more first.

I don't think it would be appropriate to hold back incorporation
of this work because it does have every event time that anyone can
think of right now.