cvs commit: src/etc devd.conf

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Feb 14 23:52:14 UTC 2007


> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:02:54PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > >   Some things appear to be completely missing though, like the USB vendor
> > >   and product strings.
> > 
> > These strings are optional.  If they are present, they will be
> > presented.
> 
> No - they aren't handled over to devd, at least not in my original
> patch, since USB strings are allowed to be very long and could overflow
> the static string limit.
> A devd script should ask the device itself IMHO.

I have in on of my p4 trees patches that return the strings safely.  I
did them so long ago that I could have sworn I merged them back into
the base FreeBSD.

Warner


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