Thanks.  I am likely to be hacking some of this into sysmon shortly... :-)

Quick question:  how important is it to retain backwards compatibility
for powerd and sysmon.  (E.g. using an old powerd with a new sysmon/kernel?)

    -- Garrett

Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> Commit, commit! :-)  Seriously, you had some common ioctl as I recall,
>> and I can easily see making sysmon use these.
>
> Ok, the changes are in -- You need to define the ioctl (because each
> driver might have several property list accessors / mutators).  If you
> have any questions on how to use the new stuff, let me know.
>
>> Frankly, I'd also like to use property lists as events generated in
>> individual drivers, so that the actual sysmon driver can do only minimal
>> interpretation and just pass up any event it doesn't care about.  ;-)
>
> Sounds reasonable, through it would be nice to have some generic
> functions for creating common event types, like currently exist.
>
> -- thorpej


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