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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:07:04 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usb devices and devfs settings 
Message-ID:  <200402131507.i1DF74Tm044520@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>  of "Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:43:38 %2B0100." <20040213144338.GA13380@gvr.gvr.org> 

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Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Guido van Rooij <guido@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > When I add usb devices after booting the system, the associated dev=
ices
> > > do show up in devfs. In my case: da0 and das0.
> > >
> > > However, the permissions on these devices does not change, despite
> > > devfs.conf.
> > =

> > man 8 devfs
> =

> Indeed. However, I don't really understand the purpos of devfs.conf
> then: why a one time bootup config file, when you have a mechanism
> that works like in devfs(8)? Why not rewrite devfs.conf in the
> devfs(8) way, load the rulesets and do an apply?

Unfortunately, that doesn't change the permissions of already-created dev=
ice =

nodes.

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