USB Pen drive
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Jun 28 08:36:48 PDT 2006
: So this section of man usbd (the first paragraph) needs a rewrite ?
:
: The usbd utility handles USB device attachment and detachment. It does
: two things. Through opening the /dev/usb0, /dev/usb1, etc. devices, it
:...
: Or does that refer to something other than attaching devices to
:their nodes ?
The manual page is definitely out of date. usbd *used* to handle
core connect and disconnect events, but all of that was moved into a
kernel thread and integrated into the driver. Now usbd just deals with
auxillary effects such as ifconfig'ing up a USB ethernet, running
moused on a USB mouse, etc.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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