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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ng_tty.4 b/share/man/man4/ng_tty.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..660b46c --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/ng_tty.4 @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Whistle Communications, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Subject to the following obligations and disclaimer of warranty, use and +.\" redistribution of this software, in source or object code forms, with or +.\" without modifications are expressly permitted by Whistle Communications; +.\" provided, however, that: +.\" 1. Any and all reproductions of the source or object code must include the +.\" copyright notice above and the following disclaimer of warranties; and +.\" 2. 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If set to non-zero, incoming +data from the tty device is queued until this character is seen. +This avoids sending lots of mbufs containing a small number of bytes, +but introduces potentially infinite latency. +The default hot character is 0x7e, consistent with +.Dv hook +being connected to a +.Xr ng_async 8 +type node. The hot character has no effect on the transmission of data. +.Pp +The node will attempt to give itself the same netgraph name as the name +of the tty device. +In any case, information about the node is available via the netgraph +.Xr ioctl 2 +command +.Dv NGIOCGINFO . +This command returns a +.Dv "struct nodeinfo" +similar to the +.Dv NGM_NODEINFO +netgraph control message. +.Sh HOOKS +This node type supports the following hooks: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width foobar +.It Dv hook +.Xr tty 4 +serial data contained in +.Dv mbuf +structures, with arbitrary inter-frame boundaries. +.El +.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES +This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following: +.Bl -tag -width foo +.It Dv NGM_TTY_SET_HOTCHAR +This command takes an integer argument and sets the hot character +from the lower 8 bits. A hot character of zero disables queueing, +so that all received data is forwarded immediately. +.It Dv NGM_TTY_GET_HOTCHAR +Returns an integer containing the current hot character in the lower +eight bits. +.Sh SHUTDOWN +This node shuts down when the corresponding device is closed +(or the line discipline is uninstalled on the device). +The +.Dv NGM_SHUTDOWN +control message is not valid, and always returns the error +.Er EOPNOTSUPP . +.Sh BUGS +The +.Nm tty +type registers its line discipline when the type is installed, +where it is dynamically assigned an integer index. +Unfortunately, there's no way to know what this integer is +except by reading the output of +.Xr dmesg 8 . +The fix for this is to have line disciplines identified by +unique ASCII strings instead of fixed integer constants, +or else to assign one of those constants to +.Nm ng_tty . +.Pp +The serial driver code also has a notion of a ``hot character.'' +Unfortunately, this value is statically defined in terms of the +line discipline and cannot be changed. +Therefore, if a hot character other than 0x7e (the default) is set for the +.Nm tty +node, the node has no way to convey this information to the +serial driver, and sub-optimal performance may result. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ioctl 2 , +.Xr netgraph 4 , +.Xr tty 4 , +.Xr ng_async 8 , +.Xr ngctl 8 . +.Sh AUTHOR +Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> |