Re: usb2: scanner no longer working

On Friday 07 November 2008, Rink Springer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:49:29PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > Hello Hans,
> >
> > * Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net> wrote:
> > > Basically there is nothing wrong with using chmod and chown. Hence USB
> > > has its own directory system which is not part of devfs, it was
> > > natural to also have a separate utility to set the permissions and
> > > ownership, which might become more complicated than simply a user and
> > > group. At EuroBSDcon this year I got some ideas about defining
> > > functional permission groups, like permissions for all USB keyboards
> > > for example, instead of permissions for individual devices.  This
> > > pradigm will then break with chmod and chown.
> >
> > But that's not the right direction. If we really want to do such things,
> > we should add ACL support to devfs, which is already something we
> > eventually want to do. I don't agree that we should create yet another
> > namespace with permissions instead of using the traditional /dev
> > directory.
>
> I'm working on migrating this to make_dev(9), so USB devices will get
> created like everything else and thus work properly using devfs et al.

Hi,

How do you plan to integrate this? Do you have any patches?

--HPS