Subject: Re: Pluged : USBd for NetBSD ?
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/19/2005 10:42:27
Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:

> Something like usbd is doubtlessly needed.  It would be
> nice if it could be common for all hot pluggable devices.

The recently-introduced /dev/drvctl seems to be a good place to
communicate driver attach/detach messages from the kernel to
userland. We have attach and detach sufficently centralized that it
shouldn't be hard to cause a message to be generated for a listener
there.

        - Nathan