Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:14:38 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devd & ukbd Message-ID: <20031212021438.GA18921@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <20031212014907.GA86634@kate.fud.org.nz> References: <20031212014907.GA86634@kate.fud.org.nz>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:49:07PM +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>
> I am trying to put together a devd rule for attaching a usb keyboard. The
> problem is that the usb device is called ukbd0 while the keyboard needs to
> be referred to as kbd1.
>
> attach 10 {
> device-name "ukbd[0-9]+";
> action "kbdcontrol -k /dev/$device-name < /dev/console";
> };
> detach 10 {
> device-name "ukbd[0-9]+";
> action "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0";
> };
>
> This obviously doesnt work as /dev/ukbd0 doesnt exist, anyone know a way
> in devd to translate it to /dev/kbd1?
>
> maybe something like kbd($device-number + 1)
>
> A better solution would be if the kbd1 device caused a devd event when
> attached, which it does not seem to.
I do it in /etc/usbd.conf, with:
device "KB"
devname "ukbd[0-9]+"
attach "kbdcontrol -k `ls /dev/kbd* |tail -1` </dev/console"
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