Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:35:05 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usbconfig documentation? Message-ID: <4A99BB29.6000801@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20090829230933.E09651CC09@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090829230933.E09651CC09@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> >> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:45:44 +0200 >> >> On Friday 28 August 2009 23:15:05 Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> Any hope of getting a more complete man page or other doc for the >>> usbconfig command? I miss some of the capabilities I had with the old >>> usbdevs command and I regularly see mentions of other commands it >>> accepts, but the man page lists none of them. >> Yes, that manual page could have more in it. Maybe file a PR about it. >> >> Until further there is: >> >> usbconfig -h > > True. I found this slightly halpful, but I'm not sure which commands are > safe or how to use them. Clearly, several would impact service. > > The things I most often need are the manufacturer and device IDs so I > can put the appropriate rules into devd.conf. Plain old 'usbdevs -v" > gave me that. I am pretty sure that usbconfig can, too, but I have no > idea how. > > I will put in a PR on this. I consider usbconfig's lack of backwards compatibility with usbdevs's status display a bug. I had code at one time to make usbconfig behave like usbdevs when invoked w/ the name but tossed it. Given time I hope to recreate it after 8.0. Sam
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