FreeBSD bemused by USB card reader

[Kevin Oberman]

> 
> 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?

Almost certainly. The creation of devfs entries is done by the driver (or at 
least the calls to the devfs to do so) are in the driver.


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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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