Questions about the USB HID device drivers

Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr. demetrioussharpe at netscape.net
Mon Feb 18 23:33:33 UTC 2019


On 2/18/19 3:37 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Not to userland applications so much as to sysadmin-controlled
> configuration which is applied from userland during system startup and when new devices are attached. See the manpage for devfs.conf.

Which does make sense on servers & network infrastructure. However, I'm 
wondering if there's a better way to do this for systems that aren't 
expected to have a sysadmin -basic desktop systems.


>  From the kernel side, some subsystems do create a hierarchy (or at
> least a subdir for a set of related devices), and others don't. There
> is no system-wide policy about it either way.
I have to admit that I'm surprised that there's no system-wide policy 
for this.

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Regards,

Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr.



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