pseudo(4)

NAME

     pseudo - 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 dev-
     ice 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 configura-
     tion file syntax.

EXAMPLES

     Example 1: A sample 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 second 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 ALSO

     driver.conf(4), ddi_prop_op(9F)

     Writing Device Drivers