From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <484301399dc9fc4481c631c9ec055856@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] USB developments From: Fco.J.Ballesteros In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:14:42 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9012d0c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I think usbd is already doing all the necessary work of noticing > when usb devices come and go. If it communicated this information > to the rest of the world with attach/detach messages on a plumbing port, > then either individual drivers could watch for their devices appearing, > or a "hotplug manager" could load the relevant driver on demand (maybe > this could be accommodated within the plumber itself with "plumb start" > rules). Hmm. I'd prefer to keep plumber out of the way here. All in all, there's no `user preferences' regarding how to handle a device, the device is likely to have just its driver, and usbd is the one who could know that such driver has to be started. A usbdb file (a la vgadb) would suffice.