Re: how to use amd?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > HAL is supposed to provide a connection between the kernel's knowledge
> > of plug-{in,out} events and interested parties in userland, like a
> > desktop manager. Apparently, NetBSD is finally catching up there.
>
> What tools are also available for NetBSD to communicate with hald to mount
> filesystems?
>
> By the way, what does NetBSD offer now for showing when a device is
> attached and detached (beyond log(9))?
>
> Any examples of using kqueue to watch device changes? (I found some kqueue
> examples for watching a socket file descriptor and for watching files.)

I started working on usbwatchd which is akin to ifwatchd. This uses events 
on /dev/usb. See USB EVENT INTERFACE in usb(4) for more information. I 
didn't polish it enough for release because of things like devfs, freza's 
work and hal in the pipeline.

--
Stephen