From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 26 10:12:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEBC37B419 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:12:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAQIAvO09289; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:10:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Dima Dorfman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on devd? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:57:58 PST." Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:10:56 +0100 Message-ID: <9287.1006798256@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob writes : >I'm curious what you think a devd is now needed for. Devd would be responsible for doing much of what usbd and pccardd is doing wrt "doing things when devices appear" but in a more general setting so that we end up having 3-4 places things should be configured. As the worst case example: The flash-card from my camera can be plugged into a USB gadget, a pccard gadget or a parallel port gadget. I wouldn't want to have to configure it three different places to act the same. I have no plans for working on devd directly, but I'll happily put any needed hooks into DEVFS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message