Re: usb devices and devfs settings

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:48:04 +0100
Guido van Rooij <guido_at_gvr.org> writes:
> 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?

Because devfs.conf was a temporary measure which noone has gotten
around to removing yet.  Part of the problem is that the rc.conf
syntax for defining devfs(8) rules to be applied at boot time is
complex and poorly documented.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Fri Feb 13 2004 - 06:48:13 UTC

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