From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 11: 4:40 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 305C237B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A424C43E6A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9PI4Xpk006856; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:04:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:02:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20021025.120245.129556486.imp@bsdimp.com> To: ler@lerctr.org Cc: reichert@numachi.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1035566157.398.10.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> References: <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com> <20021025.110925.53645480.imp@bsdimp.com> <1035566157.398.10.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: <1035566157.398.10.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> Larry Rosenman writes: : 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. It will do all devices, no matter what bus they are on. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message