Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:02:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ler@lerctr.org Cc: reichert@numachi.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages? Message-ID: <20021025.120245.129556486.imp@bsdimp.com> 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>
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Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
: On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:09, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20021025124557.T22898@numachi.com>
: > Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 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
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