Re: Device API: Implementation

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> When you receive a notification message, you only get IDs and need to 
> retrieve the respective objects, if you want more than that. The 
> required data are available in the registrar only. Well, with a path 
> to 
> a device, the API in libbe could of course directly use the 
> disk=5Fscanner functions to get the information, but that will be 
> rather 
> slow considering that the registrar has an always up to date device 
> list.

Well, syscalls should be faster than message passing, so that up-to-
date list is probably not that beneficial (at least I think so).

> > Sounds nice! As for the FS initialization: the file system call 
> > should 
> > be more or less the same as the mount() call.
> > I will add some calls to the FS API for discussion shortly, this 
> > will 
> > also affect file system initialization.
> Very nice. I'm waiting with bated breath. ;-)

Don't do that too long :-))
I think I will first complete the stdio almost rewrite before following 
the next topic :)

Adios...
   Axel.