usb devices and devfs settings

[Brian F. Feldman]

Guido van Rooij <guido at gvr.org> wrote:
> 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?

Unfortunately, that doesn't change the permissions of already-created device 
nodes.

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