From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 16 11:18:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF2E16A417 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59BF13C45D for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A548BF.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.72.191]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61882E0D1; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:18:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from deskjail (unknown [192.168.1.109]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DFE77E0F; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:18:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:12:41 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, chuckr@chuckr.org Message-ID: <20080216121241.450ff175@deskjail> In-Reply-To: <47B20739.1050602@chuckr.org> References: <47B20739.1050602@chuckr.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i686-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.4, required 6, BAYES_00 -15.00, NO_RDNS 0.50, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: about usb X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:18:32 -0000 Quoting Chuck Robey (Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:53:13 -0500): > But, I guess there's been a lot of coding in usb, because the state of usb > docs is, well, mostly missing in action. I found about a conf file in /etc > called usbd.conf, but I would guess that's a goner too (although this is a > recently installed machine, so it shouldn't be too chock full of ancient > memorabilia. cd /usr/src make check-old make delete-old make delte-old-libs (make sure you don't need them anymore) > The handbook, both the regular version AND the developer version, treat usb > only from the direction of masss storage. Once I get to the point of > understanding this data dump I have (and that won't bee all that long) I > need more into about how to architecturally amke this work. Questions > like, does this item need to operate alone, or along with my current > trackball? If I write a device driver for this, what kind of interface > should I present at /dev? If I get this done, will I just enter some You could ask hps@FreeBSD.org, he is working on a new USB stack in perforce. Bye, Alexander. -- "Look at that five o'clock rust. You've been up all night not drinking, haven't you?" -Leela http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137