Re: Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 14:37 +, Robert Millan wrote: > 2011/2/10 Gavin Atkinson : > > It depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve. > > > > You can use devd(8) to load a kernel module when a new device appears on > > the USB bus, or as an example see the entry in /etc/devd.conf for the

Re: Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Millan
2011/2/10 Gavin Atkinson : > It depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve. > > You can use devd(8) to load a kernel module when a new device appears on > the USB bus, or  as an example see the entry in /etc/devd.conf for the > Entrega Serial DB25 adapter, which will load a kernel module (if

Re: Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:55 +, Michael Dorrington wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > 2011/2/9 Timo Juhani Lindfors : > >> Robert Millan writes: > >>> Hotplug is a daemon for GNU/kFreeBSD. It scans your PCI and USB buses > >>> looking for devices that are supported by your kernel. > >> Interest

Re: Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-09 Thread Michael Dorrington
Robert Millan wrote: > 2011/2/9 Timo Juhani Lindfors : >> Robert Millan writes: >>> Hotplug is a daemon for GNU/kFreeBSD. It scans your PCI and USB buses >>> looking for devices that are supported by your kernel. >> Interesting. Is there anything similar that is already in use on >> FreeBSD? > >

Re: Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-09 Thread Robert Millan
2011/2/9 Timo Juhani Lindfors : > Robert Millan writes: >> Hotplug is a daemon for GNU/kFreeBSD.  It scans your PCI and USB buses >> looking for devices that are supported by your kernel. > > Interesting. Is there anything similar that is already in use on > FreeBSD? No idea. If there is, I'd li

Re: Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Robert Millan writes: > Hotplug is a daemon for GNU/kFreeBSD. It scans your PCI and USB buses > looking for devices that are supported by your kernel. Interesting. Is there anything similar that is already in use on FreeBSD? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Announcing Hotplug

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hotplug is a daemon for GNU/kFreeBSD. It scans your PCI and USB buses looking for devices that are supported by your kernel. For each supported device, it automatically loads the corresponding kernel module. This initial version only supports sound devices. The id lists are filled blindly and i