On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:27:39AM +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> usbd's present behaviour when reading usbd.conf is to scan from top to
> bottom and use the first match.
> 
> What if it was changed to use the last, most specific match? That is,
> the last match with the most of (product, vendor) specified.
> 
> The idea is that it makes it programmatically easy to add new entries to
> the file - just place them at the end. Presently that won't work because
> of the generic catch-all 
>       device  "USB Device"
> in the default usbd.conf.
> 
> I know this would be useful to me, so I'm just looking for somebody to
> say "yeah maybe".

I'm working on getting devd(8) usable for usb devices.
Seee http://www.bwct.de/usb-devd.patch for the current status.
devd.conf(5) is far more flexible then usbd.conf.
But devd is a 5.x thing.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
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