Subject: Re: selnotify: knhint?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/30/2005 16:40:07
der Mouse wrote:
> However, I am unable to find documentation which describes suitable
> values for knhint. knote(9) says that that argument "is used to pass
> in additional information, which may not be present in the data
> structure that the filter examines", which offers little to no guidance
> in selecting a value. I also see nothing that helps in determining
> whether mine is one of the exceptional cases when calling selwakeup()
> is right.
It's a flag passed to the device kevent filter. Use whatever you
want for it. You probably want to always use selnotify(), unless
your device never plans support for kevents.
Jaromir
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