Re: usb devices and devfs settings

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:48:04PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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.

IMHO all that is needed is a rewrite of devfs.conf to the ruleset approach
and rewrite /etc/rc.d/devfs to apply that ruleset. Correct?

-Guido