[RFC] USB keyboard and devd.conf

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:51:01 Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi,

I suspect a system without kbdmux will still need these. However, these lines 
are not correct with regard to multiple USB keyboards.

--HPS