[RFC] USB keyboard and devd.conf

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Tue Feb 12 14:51:07 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone need these lines in /etc/devd.conf ?
> 
> === etc/devd.conf
> ==================================================================
> --- etc/devd.conf	(revision 246620)
> +++ etc/devd.conf	(local)
> @@ -105,16 +105,6 @@
>  #	action "sleep 2 && /usr/sbin/ath3kfw -d $device-name -f /usr/local/etc/ath3k-1.fw";
>  #};
>  
> -# When a USB keyboard arrives, attach it as the console keyboard.
> -attach 100 {
> -	device-name "ukbd0";
> -	action "/etc/rc.d/syscons setkeyboard /dev/ukbd0";
> -};
> -detach 100 {
> -	device-name "ukbd0";
> -	action "/etc/rc.d/syscons setkeyboard /dev/kbd0";
> -};
> -
>  notify 100 {
>  	match "system" "DEVFS";
>  	match "subsystem" "CDEV";
> 
> 
> I plan to remove the lines marked with minus, because we now have kbdmux.
> 

Do these entries have negative impact on systems using kbdmux(4)?
Will their lack have impact on systems not using kbdmux(4)? I typically
remove or at least disable the latter on machines without atkbd(4) etc.
hardware and thus ukbd(4) is the only keyboard driver ever used there.

Marius



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