USB devfs patch

Andrew Thompson thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 26 17:14:40 PST 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:03:30PM -0800, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Below is a patch from Rink Springer to change the new USB stack to use
> devfs device nodes.  I have tested this with a usb mouse and I am hoping
> people with other devices can test too, in particular scanners (sane
> app) and lpt ports.

The patch has been updated thanks to feedback
http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/usb-cdevs2.diff

It now uses d_open instead of d_fdopen, uses an updated /dev layout, and
of course bugfixes. I plan to commit tomorrow.


Andrew


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