FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 available

[Jochen Gensch]

Scott Long wrote:

>    - Detaching a USB Hub device, including many keyboards and monitors,
>      will trigger a panic.  The fix for this is being tested and will be
>      in the next BETA.

I just wanted to point at a new issue regarding the propsed patch to 
usb_port.h, since I didn't manage to send an e-mail to the correct 
thread :-(. The suggested change was:

Index: usb_port.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_port.h,v
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -r1.67 usb_port.h
--- usb_port.h	15 Aug 2004 23:39:18 -0000	1.67
+++ usb_port.h	21 Sep 2004 23:46:27 -0000
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@
  #define config_detach(dev, flag) \
  	do { \
  		free(device_get_ivars(dev), M_USB); \
+		device_detach(dev); \
  		device_delete_child(device_get_parent(dev), dev); \
  	} while (0);

Apparently this relly stops the kernel panic. BUT there seems to be a
problem with devfs, when reattaching the usb hub / devices. Permissions
set in /etc/devfs.conf do not take effect any more. Even worse, if you
do a ls -l /dev, then all devices show permissions like '0'.

Jochen