On Fri, Jun 02, 2000, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's a dependancy chain, there is usually a device which does have a
> > device node to trigger the loading (/dev/sda for the USB floppy).
>
> Not for anything using the usbdevfs ioctls for a user mode
> driver (no association with device physical address and the
> device logical name), or for many other devices (not just
> network controllers).
That's where devfs comes in! :) Heh
Seriously, it can be easily modified to load usbcore and a HC driver if
someone tries to access /dev/usb/...
> Also, /dev/sda could easily be a real SCSI disk that needs
> no USB support to work ... ;-)
Well, I was assuming that the user knows /dev/sda is the USB SCSI disk.
Of course there is no easy way to figure that out right now without
trial and error (or looking through logs).
JE
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