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Subject: Re: USB devfs patch 
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In message <20090226020330.GC25211@citylink.fud.org.nz>, Andrew Thompson writes
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>Hi,
>
>
>Below is a patch from Rink Springer to change the new USB stack to use
>devfs device nodes.  I have tested this with a usb mouse and I am hoping
>people with other devices can test too, in particular scanners (sane
>app) and lpt ports.
>
>This also removes the custom permissions from usb and usbconfig.
>
>http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/usb-cdevs.diff

I really like that this patch is mostly minus-lines.

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