Re: Future features (was Re: Discussing issues)

> When a driver is in the kernel though, from talking to you the other
> day I gathered the device "exists" to most userspace apps when the
> driver has been loaded. Until then we don't know whether there will be
> 0, 1, or N virtual devices (major/minor pairs) for a piece of
> hardware. Hopefully I understood that right. ;-)

In some cases yes. Without a driver we may know a scsi card exists but
we do not know what disks are attached

> > USB core driver - new device 0x1111 , 0x4115, class USB storage
> > USB to user space "Hey do something with this info"
> 
> So user space here is probably just a single special-purpose app that
> loads usb-storage.

Currently /sbin/hotplug does all those mappings on Linux. I'm not familiar
enough with *BSD to know how they approach this bit. I would like to know.

ALan