On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:31:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > And I can get devfsd to run it for me when I press the hotsync button by
> > adding this line to /etc/devfsd.conf:
> > REGISTER usb/tty/1 EXECUTE sudo -u mcelrath
>~mcelrath/bin/visor-sync
> >
> > With these two things I can now hotsync simply by pressing the hotsync
> > button.
>
> Very nice indeed. So is devfsd enough to avoid writing another daemon and
> sending it change messages. At least if we expand the info passed a little ?
I don't know.
What node would devices that don't have their firmware downloaded to
them yet open up?
Hm, actually they could just register with usb/empty or some such
directory and devfsd would come along, start up a userspace program that
would dump the firmware to it, then the device would reenumerate
(causing the usb/empty/0 node to disappear) and some other driver would
be attached to it like it happens today.
That might work, I really want to move these firmware images out of
kernel memory. I just see them as taking up unnecessary room.
Time to take Johannes' patch and try it out...
greg k-h
greg@(kroah|wirex).com
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