Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:54:17 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: nick@anywi.com Cc: freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB2 - umass problem Message-ID: <20090209.085417.1342145568.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200902091035.26738.nick@anywi.com> References: <200902041044.27663.hselasky@c2i.net> <20090204.085606.1630229139.imp@bsdimp.com> <200902091035.26738.nick@anywi.com>
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Nick Hibma <nick@anywi.com> writes:
: > : > By some reason devfs semantic was changed:
: > : > Instead of /dev/cuaU0.[0-2] and /dev/ttyU0.[0-2], I've get
: > : > /dev/cuaU[0-2] /dev/ttyU[0-2] and! /dev/cuau1 /dev/ttyu1
: > : > What is reason for such change (additional port with lowercase 'u'
: > : > and U[0-2] instead of more logical U0.[0-2]) ?
: > :
: > : It is because we are attaching drivers per interface instead of per
: > : device. A new modem unit is allocated every time we find a modem,
: > : simply put. If the modem has multiple instances in an interface,
: > : /dev/cuaU0.[0...] will be created. Else /dev/cuaU... .
: >
: > Generally, we try not to change the details of how a device attaches
: > /dev entries from release to release. Why the change?
:
: The USB1 u3g driver also attaches to interfaces, but collects all interfaces
: in one go, leaving all unused interfaces available for other drivers (e.g.
: umass) or claims them (to hide the 'driver disks'). It is the main reason
: why I wrote a separate driver in the first place. Otherwise the UMTS cards
: could be treated as serial ports without any port singalling.
:
: It is important to be able to determine in an automated way the 2 or more
: serial ports that belong together. As an example: If you create a router
: box that automatically configures itself depending on the hardware it
: finds, we somehow need to find out which two serial ports are found on each
: GPRS/UMTS card, so we can assign the first one to PPP and the other one to
: our control application.
If the devices have serial numbers, then I think that's published in
the sysctl tree...
Warner
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