It's not a bad idea.


On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> Dear Hackers,
> 
> I would like to get some feedback on the idea i have.
> Basically i would like Netgraph system to send kevents
> whenever something happens. For example:
> 
> 1) node X of type Y was created/destroyed
> 2) hook X was connected/disconnected to/from node Y
> 3) Data passed via hook X
> 4) Node X got message Y
> 
> etc.
> 
> Right now i can think of two scenarios where this
> could be useful. 
> 
> 1) Device driver in Netgraph node. When hardware is
>    activated new Netgraph node is created and new
>    kevent sent. devd (or something like devd) listens
>    for these events and does something (loads firmware,
>    activates device, etc.)
> 
> 2) ngdump - "tcpdump" for Netgraph. Dumps everything
>    that happens in the Netgraph. 
> 
> what do you think?
> 
> thanks,
> max
> 


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