From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 14:28:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F96F37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from garple.migus.org (pcp243391pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net [68.55.83.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2D543F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amigus@migus.org) Received: from migus.org (ganyopa.migus.org [192.168.4.2]) by garple.migus.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2QMSlea037831 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:28:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from amigus@migus.org) Message-ID: <3E8229A0.2030207@migus.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:28:48 -0500 From: Adam Migus Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: usbd/devd X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:28:52 -0000 Folks, Some were chatting and think that adding some features to usb might be nice. Mentioned specifically was fixing it so it loads the right driver on the fly. :-) Also I was thinking we might be able to use mostly or all devd to catagorize devices in some sensable fashion, thus making the former, easier. Given overlap with NetBSD I was thinking extending with as little modifcation would be easier. So: 1) Any thoughts? 2) Anyone think we should start a project for this? If everyone would like, I can summarize what people say into something sensable and put it somewhere? Or if anyone else would like to... The general idea I have to rationalize the effort is that FreeBSD is now well equipped to adapt to the desktop. Great USB support is a very good step in the direction. Of course its a server, so I'm not sure how much effort is appropriate. Thus question 1)... :-) -- Adam Migus - Research Scientist Network Associates Laboratories (http://www.nailabs.com) TrustedBSD (http://www.trustedbsd.org) FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org)