Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:34:18 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: no /dev/ums0 when module loaded Message-ID: <200501161134.25828.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050115155538.GA36629@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20050115155538.GA36629@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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--nextPart4731777.ULLO5UKFEr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:25, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > I was playing a bit with devd(8) to have ums.ko automatically loaded > when I plug my USB mouse. This works quite well except that it seems > that ums0 is NOT detected when the module is loaded when the mouse is > already plugged. Thus, when I match against the uhid(4) device to get > the ums(4) module loaded, it cannot work since the module is inevitably > loaded after the moused is plugged. > > Is this a bug or a feature ? I've been told that whenever an USB device > is not grabbed by any driver on attach, it uses ugen(4) and it won't be > possible to ``move'' it from ugen(4) to ums(4) later. This is a problem with the USB stack - devices are not reprobed when a new= =20 module is loaded. I preload all the USB modules I plan to use (a bit annoying I admit). I=20 believe there is ongoing work in this area though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart4731777.ULLO5UKFEr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB6b2Z5ZPcIHs/zowRAi+GAJ9Zi0LDGuFRNy9CHbTWWjsgKTlpuQCfWZhw 67qsHbb/jECfpdyf8lS+Hg8= =lGyT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4731777.ULLO5UKFEr--
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