From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 11:10:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E72337B417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:10:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 6B5C981D01; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:10:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:10:28 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Kevin D . Wooten" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb hotplugging? Message-ID: <20011105131028.H89342@elvis.mu.org> References: <01110511582305.08198@newton.cevio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01110511582305.08198@newton.cevio.com>; from kwooten@home.com on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:58:23AM -0700 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 * Kevin D . Wooten [011105 13:06] wrote: > I have been looking around the usb code, and trying to see if it supports > some sort of hotplugging notification in user-space. I am looking for > something like the linux hotplugging project. If this does not exist I am > more than willing to knock it together. If it needs to be added I would like > some ideas, suggestions, comments about the implementation. > > Also linux-hotplugging is for all busses ( pci,usb,1394 ), and it is very > nice that they are unified. This would probably be my final goal, although > usb is my current need. Right now each individual system in FreeBSD has its own daemon to do this, pccardd and usbd. Unifying them would be an interesting and worthwhile excersize. Go for it. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message