usb devices and devfs settings

[Guido van Rooij]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Guido van Rooij <guido at freebsd.org> writes:
> > When I add usb devices after booting the system, the associated devices
> > do show up in devfs. In my case: da0 and das0.
> >
> > However, the permissions on these devices does not change, despite
> > devfs.conf.
> 
> man 8 devfs

Indeed. However, I don't really understand the purpos of devfs.conf
then: why a one time bootup config file, when you have a mechanism
that works like in devfs(8)? Why not rewrite devfs.conf in the
devfs(8) way, load the rulesets and do an apply?

-Guido