FreeBSD bemused by USB card reader

[Michael Abbott]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> From: Michael Abbott <michael at araneidae.co.uk>
>>  	# ls /dev/da*
>>  	/dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da2 /dev/da3 /dev/da3
>> How very very strange.
> Strange, yes. Surprising, no.
>
> umass (and USB support) is not in the best of shape in FreeBSD.

Does this phenomenon also point to a problem with devfs, or is the set of 
device names completely delegated to the corresponding driver (umass) by 
devfs?

> If you want to follow this more closely (and maybe get some of your
> concerns addressed), you might try subscribing to the freebsd-usb list
> and sending details there and sending in a PR on what you've seen.

Sigh.  I ought to.