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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:02:37 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?
Message-ID:  <20090311180237.GB67007@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
>  >Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem
>  >documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now,
>  >and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so.
>=20
>  This looks like exactly what we need, except we're using 7.0, and are
>  too close to releasing 1.0 of our software to make a switch to 7.1
>  now (QA would want to run weeks of testing).
>=20
>  What are the issues with devd and 7.0?

It's missing the call to devctl_notify in the devfs handling. This was
added to RELENG_7 on the 28th of May 2008.  You'll need at least
rev. 1.208.2.4 of /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c?f=3Du&only_w=
ith_tag=3DRELENG_7&logsort=3Ddate

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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