pseudo(4) File Formats pseudo(4)NAMEpseudo - configuration files for pseudo device drivers
DESCRIPTION
Pseudo devices are devices that are implemented entirely in software.
Drivers for pseudo devices must provide driver configuration files to
inform the system of each pseudo device that should be created.
Configuration files for pseudo device drivers must identify the parent
driver explicitly as pseudo, and must create an integer property called
instance which is unique to this entry in the configuration file.
Each entry in the configuration file creates a prototype devinfo node.
Each node is assigned an instance number which is determined by the
value of the instance property. This property is only applicable to
children of the pseudo parent, and is required since pseudo devices
have no hardware address from which to determine the instance number.
See driver.conf(4) for further details of configuration file syntax.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using a Configuration File
Here is a configuration file called ramdisk.conf for a pseudo device
driver that implements a RAM disk. This file creates two nodes called
ramdisk. The first entry creates ramdisk node instance 0, and the sec‐
ond creates ramdisk node, instance 1, with the additional disk-size
property set to 512.
#
# Copyright (c) 1993, by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
#
#ident "@(#)ramdisk.conf 1.3 93/06/04 SMI"
name="ramdisk" parent="pseudo" instance=0;
name="ramdisk" parent="pseudo" instance=1 disk-size=512;
SEE ALSOdriver.conf(4), ddi_prop_op(9F)SunOS 5.10 15 Jun 1993 pseudo(4)
