On Friday, 15. April 2005 09:08, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 18:21, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > I couldn't figure out how to retrieve those information from the Zire > > > myself. > > > > usbdevs -v probably. > > Only gives my the 2 of the 3.
Release is probably revision in hex, but since devices rarely ever behave differently enough between hardware revisions to require changing a usbd-on-attach-action, it should be omittable. > > They do different things. Lines in devfs.conf are parsed and applied > > by /etc/rc.d/devfs at bootup, rules from devfs.rules are loaded via the > > devfs utility into devfs themselves and usbd only deals with USB and thus > > can't be used for non-USB devices. > > But they all handle deviceentries in /dev I'll put it differently: The functional overlap is not as big as you perceive it to be. Yes, devfs (with devfs.rules) can handle setting permissions for dynamically appearing and disappearing usb devices, as can usbd - but usbd cannot handle for instance firewire-devices, bluetooth devices, etc etc. On the other hand, devfs can ONLY manage devices, it cannot trigger arbitrary actions if the devices appear. devfs.conf *could* theoretically go away, because you can do everything you can do with it with devfs rules as well - but it's only there for convenience anyway. I would agree that the existence of devfs.rules and devfs-rulesets is not very well-known, at least compared to devfs.conf. That might be in part because dynamic devices are still not that very common and in part because the devfs manpage does not reference devfs.rules at all (and a devfs.rules manpage doesn't exist either). The latter can be considered a documentation bug. > > > 4) I used 3-4 hours on this due to lack of documentation. So, how do > > > are go about making an entry to the FAQ at freebsd.kde.org? > > > > Well, quite frankly, it's not a FAQ. > > Ok... I just thought it would be nice to other who'd like to use > kpilot/palm with their FreeBSD-desktop to have a nice guide to how to do it > since it doesn't work out-of-the-box... but alas, I'm wrong. Well, we do have a HOWTO-section on freebsd.kde.org - if you'd care to write up a guide from your experiences, we'll happily add it to the site. Plain text and perhaps a few screenshots is enough, we can do the html markup for you. Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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