From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 10:16:11 2002 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 49DD537B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lerlaptop.iadfw.net (lerlaptop.iadfw.net [206.66.13.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A3B43E3B for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.iadfw.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PHFupg002008; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:15:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Subject: Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages? From: Larry Rosenman To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: reichert@numachi.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021025.110925.53645480.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20021025004026.M22898@numachi.com> <20021024.230834.10710963.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com> <20021025.110925.53645480.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 25 Oct 2002 12:15:56 -0500 Message-Id: <1035566157.398.10.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:09, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com> > Brian Reichert writes: > : On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > devinfo will also deal with a device that arrives 3 days after the > : > system has booted. > : > : Devinfo is looking to be _far_ more encompassing that what I > : originally wanted/needed, and look forward to 5.x (-CURRENT or > : otherwise) to be stable enough for me to use on my workstation. > : > : In fact, if devinfo has some sort of event-reporting mechanism > : (kevent filter, maybe), then I can _really_ go to town... > > Right now there's /dev/devctl that reports one stream of such events > to userland. I should upgrade it to report multiple stream, but not > for 5.0. Question: will this interface report USB attach/detach? (there is an issue with the current (-STABLE) stuff that there is no way for a userland program to wait for a (E.G. ucom0) USB device to attach. (I'm still on -STABLE, but..) -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message