Re: FreeBSD-5's USB subsystem

[Kent Ibbetson <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Robinson probed the keyboard and on Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:54:45PM +0000 produced:
> Emiel Kollof wrote:
> 
> >What's wrong with usbd? 
> >
> 
> Ummmm..... it never worked properly? It only recognised my USB mouse and 
> that's it? It keeled over and died whenever I tried to plug in my 
> camera? I'm sure others can come up with other examples of why it sucked...
> 
> Trust me, kernel support for USB, and the relatively decent stuff in 
> there now is far and away much, much better...


Correct me if I'm wrong, but dosen't usbd just, as it says in the man page,
'supervise USB attach/detach'.  It dosen't have any device code (though, it
will load some kernel modules if required), it pretty much just starts and stops 
applications.

I totally agree that the USB code in 4.x is nasty, and the new stuff will be
better :)


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> Paul Robinson
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Regards,

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Kent Ibbetson
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