From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 11:45: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E7E37B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:44:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 41388 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 19:44:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Nov 2001 19:44:53 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011105131028.H89342@elvis.mu.org> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:44:52 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: usb hotplugging? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Kevin D . Wooten" 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 05-Nov-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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. :) 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 -- 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