Re: IOKit Kext Dependencies
Re: IOKit Kext Dependencies
- Subject: Re: IOKit Kext Dependencies
- From: Joe van Tunen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:52:41 -0700
- Thread-topic: IOKit Kext Dependencies
I think waitForService will do what you need. It will wait for the matching
IOService to call registerService and returns a pointer to that IOService.
google: waitforservice site:developer.apple.com
Or search all of Apple (including mailing lists and darwin source for
examples and discussion)
google: waitforservice site:apple.com
> From: Duane Murphy <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:56:17 -0700
>
> Is there a way of expressing dependencies on classes other than the
> classes that a kext is a subclass of?
>
> For example, I'm developing a kext that obviously has dependencies on
> it's base class, but it also needs to find another class in the
> registry. It would be best if an instance of the dependent class was
> already loaded when the second class loads.
>
> Is it possible to express such a dependency in the Info.plist?
> Info.plist has OSBundleLibraries but that seems like it is too high.
>
> Our implementation has two classes that coordinate with each other. I
> would like to have one load before the other. Is that possible? Both
> classes are in the same kext (and the same library).
>
> Thank you for your ideas,
>
>
> ...Duane
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