Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:56:43 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, Johny Mattsson <lonewolf-freebsd@earthmagic.org> Subject: Re: devfs doesn't set access rights Message-ID: <200512131956.51785.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <439F4AA4.5070500@earthmagic.org> References: <439EF8B5.4030702@gmx.de> <439F24B2.1080408@gmx.de> <439F4AA4.5070500@earthmagic.org>
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--nextPart4031399.fXJWB8Hav3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 13 December 2005 05:26 pm, Johny Mattsson wrote: > On 12/14/05 06:44, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > 3) > > There is one kind of thing I cannot do in /etc/devfs.rules, > > creating links. So I am still doing this in /etc/devfs.conf > > (links don't cause race conditions anyway, I hope). > > > > One would think that "link ttyU0 pilot" would simply be > > translated to "ln -s /dev/ttyU0 /dev/pilot" which would simply > > create the link and it would work as soon as a ttyU0 device (my > > PDA) is there. But instead it checks weather the device exists > > (of course it doesn't since I didn't press the hotsync button > > during boot) and omits the creation of the link. > > Note that while for you it might be sufficient to have a hard coded > link from /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyU0, that is not necessarily the > case if you have multiple USB serial gadgets. > The way I handled it is by using an entry in /etc/usbd.conf: > > # > # Fixup permissions for Palm Handheld ucom devices > # (set here and not in devfs.rules since we only want to apply > # the change to Palm com ports, not all USB com ports) > device "PalmHandheld" > devname "ucom[0-9]+" > vendor 0x0830 > attach "/bin/chmod 0666 /dev/${DEVNAME} ; /bin/ln -s > /dev/${DEVNAME} /dev/pilot" > detach "rm -f /dev/pilot > Roland already mentioned this point, but usbd and usbd.conf have been=20 depreciated since 5.x. They WILL be going away in CURRENT (usbd.conf=20 no longer has any entries) once Ian gets a chance to review and=20 commit the patches. If you are in need of the release field for usb=20 devices on 5.x or 6.x check out: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D73799 =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart4031399.fXJWB8Hav3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDn23TxqA5ziudZT0RAsGvAJ9wVDJUvJmjZgND/ciCqXo+A8xVcgCgvSDt iZheel+/dZY14bnryetWI1s= =U2+f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4031399.fXJWB8Hav3--
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