From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 29 23:35:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4F0106564A for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:35:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041248FC1F for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ice.local ([10.0.0.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id n7TNZ5s9001429 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <4A99BB29.6000801@errno.com> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:35:05 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20090829230933.E09651CC09@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20090829230933.E09651CC09@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-x.dcc-servers-Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usbconfig documentation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:35:08 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Hans Petter Selasky >> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:45:44 +0200 >> >> On Friday 28 August 2009 23:15:05 Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> Any hope of getting a more complete man page or other doc for the >>> usbconfig command? I miss some of the capabilities I had with the old >>> usbdevs command and I regularly see mentions of other commands it >>> accepts, but the man page lists none of them. >> Yes, that manual page could have more in it. Maybe file a PR about it. >> >> Until further there is: >> >> usbconfig -h > > True. I found this slightly halpful, but I'm not sure which commands are > safe or how to use them. Clearly, several would impact service. > > The things I most often need are the manufacturer and device IDs so I > can put the appropriate rules into devd.conf. Plain old 'usbdevs -v" > gave me that. I am pretty sure that usbconfig can, too, but I have no > idea how. > > I will put in a PR on this. I consider usbconfig's lack of backwards compatibility with usbdevs's status display a bug. I had code at one time to make usbconfig behave like usbdevs when invoked w/ the name but tossed it. Given time I hope to recreate it after 8.0. Sam