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I snagged the license boiler plate. Fix that. also, it's spelled .Va not .Vn. Plus " quoting issues. Noticed by: rgrimes, xtouqh at hotmail dot com
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd September 22, 2020
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.Dt DEVCTL_NOTIFY 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm devctl_notify
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.Nd Send a message, via devctl, to userland
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/devctl.h
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.Ft void
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.Fn devctl_notify "const char *system" "const char *subsystem" "const char *type" "const char *data"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Send a notification to user land via
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.Xr devctl 4 .
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See
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.Xr devctl 4
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for the format of these messages.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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function creates a string using the following template:
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.Bd -literal
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snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "!system=%s subsystem=%s type=%s",
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system, subsystem, type);
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The
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.Va system ,
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.Va subsystem ,
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and
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.Va type
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pointers cannot be NULL.
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.Pp
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The
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.Va data
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argument may be NULL (for no additions) or a message formatted
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properly for
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.Xr devctl 4 .
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A space will be added to the above template and this argument copied
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verbatim to form the message passed to userland.
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Senders should balance between only passing data that userland can not
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discover itself and sending all the data userland will want to use to
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decide what to do with the message.
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.Pp
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The current total message length limit is just under 1kb.
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Senders should try to remain well below this limit.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr devctl 4 ,
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.Xr devd 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This manual page was written by
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.An M. Warner Losh
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