From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 28 13:57:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20109 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:57:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20098 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01021; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:54:04 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808281354.NAA01021@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Steven G. Kargl" cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new gpib driver and select/poll issues In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:51:10 MST." <199808282051.NAA14051@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:54:04 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Studying other drivers tends to indicate that it should become > > 'seltrue'. > > Okay. I'll see what happens. I don't have a 2.2.x system to > compare against, but it seems to me to be some sort of negative > logic. > > seltrue ---> select is true (a select function is available for > this device driver). > > noselect --> no select function available. No. "noselect" meant "there is no select function available". "seltrue" now means "there is no way to know whether data is available, so always assume there is". The GPIB driver should eventually support select/poll. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message