Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:46:35 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Sam Lawrance <samuel.lawrance@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usbd config file parse behaviour Message-ID: <20040326074634.GG94505@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <1080257258.1138.34.camel@dirk> References: <1080257258.1138.34.camel@dirk>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:27:39AM +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote: > Hi, > > usbd's present behaviour when reading usbd.conf is to scan from top to > bottom and use the first match. > > What if it was changed to use the last, most specific match? That is, > the last match with the most of (product, vendor) specified. > > The idea is that it makes it programmatically easy to add new entries to > the file - just place them at the end. Presently that won't work because > of the generic catch-all > device "USB Device" > in the default usbd.conf. > > I know this would be useful to me, so I'm just looking for somebody to > say "yeah maybe". I'm working on getting devd(8) usable for usb devices. Seee http://www.bwct.de/usb-devd.patch for the current status. devd.conf(5) is far more flexible then usbd.conf. But devd is a 5.x thing. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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