Mark Kirby <mark@coris.org.uk> wrote:

> I have been trying to work on a generic userland notification framework, i
> also think Jeff Rizo was working on something similar. 
> 
> I was hoping to get something up to allow us to port HAL to NetBSD. My
> framework was based (loosely) on FreeBSD's devctl implementation.
> 
> This would allow us to notify userland of any kernel event not just device
> attatchment. 
> 
> Unfortunately it is slow going as i'm no C coder and i have just started a new
> job. Im certainly willing to help design, code, test this if you want my
> help.

Any pointer to your work?

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