devd & ukbd

[Barney Wolff]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:49:07PM +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> 
> I am trying to put together a devd rule for attaching a usb keyboard. The 
> problem is that the usb device is called ukbd0 while the keyboard needs to
> be referred to as kbd1.
> 
> attach 10 {
>         device-name "ukbd[0-9]+";
>         action "kbdcontrol -k /dev/$device-name < /dev/console";
> };
> detach 10 {
>         device-name "ukbd[0-9]+";
>         action "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0";
> };
> 
> This obviously doesnt work as /dev/ukbd0 doesnt exist, anyone know a way
> in devd to translate it to /dev/kbd1?
> 
> maybe something like kbd($device-number + 1)
> 
> A better solution would be if the kbd1 device caused a devd event when 
> attached, which it does not seem to.

I do it in /etc/usbd.conf, with:
device "KB"
	devname "ukbd[0-9]+"
	attach  "kbdcontrol -k `ls /dev/kbd* |tail -1` </dev/console"

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