Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:33:13 -0600 From: "Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr." <demetrioussharpe@netscape.net> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about the USB HID device drivers Message-ID: <68c25883-b4f8-6de3-5a5e-02d6108aa63a@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <4b8043dce0fcb0c386f0666b4e1461b4fe4ddad0.camel@freebsd.org> References: <fd7883c8-604e-e7d7-b135-d1d957938e7c@netscape.net> <9c6a87dd-cf7c-d0eb-82f1-5e904baaf05f@selasky.org> <325834a2-d9f1-a1f4-dff1-7f724aeb4907@netscape.net> <6762c7c9-f9dc-f7d2-0b1f-c2f6e2816cd7@selasky.org> <3724cc29-b682-2395-bd95-cbfa418ad9f2@netscape.net> <0cbc66cd-9007-878e-8bc3-f623364729d4@selasky.org> <d792f27e-5e55-e5ca-eb89-b7a8704200e0@netscape.net> <4b8043dce0fcb0c386f0666b4e1461b4fe4ddad0.camel@freebsd.org>
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On 2/18/19 3:37 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > Not to userland applications so much as to sysadmin-controlled > configuration which is applied from userland during system startup and when new devices are attached. See the manpage for devfs.conf. Which does make sense on servers & network infrastructure. However, I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this for systems that aren't expected to have a sysadmin -basic desktop systems. > From the kernel side, some subsystems do create a hierarchy (or at > least a subdir for a set of related devices), and others don't. There > is no system-wide policy about it either way. I have to admit that I'm surprised that there's no system-wide policy for this. -- Regards, Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr.
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