Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:44:52 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Kevin D . Wooten" <kwooten@home.com> Subject: Re: usb hotplugging? Message-ID: <XFMail.011105114452.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011105131028.H89342@elvis.mu.org>
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On 05-Nov-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kevin D . Wooten <kwooten@home.com> [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. :) And very much on the project's todo list. That was the topic of discussion (devd) at part of the Usenix kernel meeting. Warner Losh (imp@FreeBSD.org) is in theory working on it or at least has plans for it. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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