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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:50:08 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        ticso@cicely.de, ticso@cicely12.cicely.de
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, joerg@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc devd.conf
Message-ID:  <20070214.165008.74659809.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070214233649.GD10995@cicely12.cicely.de>
References:  <200702140813.l1E8DsLo074756@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070214.160254.104122120.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070214233649.GD10995@cicely12.cicely.de>

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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:02:54PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > >   Some things appear to be completely missing though, like the USB vendor
> > >   and product strings.
> > 
> > These strings are optional.  If they are present, they will be
> > presented.
> 
> No - they aren't handled over to devd, at least not in my original
> patch, since USB strings are allowed to be very long and could overflow
> the static string limit.
> A devd script should ask the device itself IMHO.

I have in on of my p4 trees patches that return the strings safely.  I
did them so long ago that I could have sworn I merged them back into
the base FreeBSD.

Warner



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