FreeBSD Device Drivers

Implementing sysctls, Part 2

Now that you know how to create sysctls during runtime, let’s do some actual device control (as opposed to quoting Monty Python).

Example 3-4 is a revision of Example 3-1 that employs a sysctl to resize the memory buffer.

Note

To save space, the functions echo_open, echo_close, echo_write, and echo_read aren’t listed here, as they haven’t been changed.

Example 3-4. echo-4.0.c

#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/module.h> #include <sys/kernel.h> #include <sys/systm.h> #include <sys/conf.h> #include <sys/uio.h> #include <sys/malloc.h> #include <sys/ioccom.h> #include <sys/sysctl.h> MALLOC_DEFINE(M_ECHO, "echo_buffer", "buffer for echo driver"); #define ECHO_CLEAR_BUFFER _IO('E', 1) static d_open_t echo_open; static d_close_t ...