How to auto-detect a USB drive?

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
>  >It's missing the call to devctl_notify in the devfs handling. This was
>  >added to RELENG_7 on the 28th of May 2008.  You'll need at least
>  >rev. 1.208.2.4 of /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c. See:
>  >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c?f=u&only_with_tag=RELENG_7&logsort=date
> 
>  Looks like were out of luck then. Our version is 1.208.2.1 from circa
>  2007/12/07. I assume we can't just replace this one file with the
>  latest version? 

It might work. You'd have to look around in the CVS database
[cvsweb.freebsd.org] to see if the changes in question touch other files
as well.

> We simply cannot move to 7.1 at this point. We have
> some substantial kernel mods that would need to be ported and tested
> in the 7.1 code base and there simply isn't time for that.

Then try another solution: a cron job, as explained in another msg.

Roland
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