From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 18 19:16: 3 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk (calcaphon.demon.co.uk [193.237.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286FB37B4CF; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gate [192.168.1.1]) by calcaphon.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA26249; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:15:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@qubesoft.com) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:15:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@henny.webweaving.org Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Chris Dillon Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On a related note, I checked the code and it seems that this actually might work. I'll have to test it and unfortunately my laptops kernel is severely out of date. If anyone is at BSDCon that could try out the following lines to replace the ethernet entry in /etc/usbd.conf be my guest. If it works, I'll commit it. # The entry for the cue, kue and aue ethernet interface drivers. device "USB ethernet" devname "[ack]ue[0-9]+" attach "dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.${DEVNAME}.pid ${DEVNAME}" detach "kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.${DEVNAME}.pid`" Nick On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:27:18AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > Didn't someone suggest a mechanism for contrib/ a while ago that would > > support something like the ports files/patch-?? mechanism, so we could do > > FreeBSD specific changes without pulling files off the vendor branch? > > Is there any reason why those wanting this will not first try submitting > the patches to the vendor first? > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > -- Qube Software, Ltd. Private: n_hibma@qubesoft.com n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org http://www.qubesoft.com/ http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message