Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Hi FreeBSD community

This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386.

sysctl -a | grep dev.umass
dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3
dev.umass.1.%driver: umass
dev.umass.1.%location: port=6 interface=0
dev.umass.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x0718 product=0x0081 devclass=0x00
devsubclass=0x00 release=0x0103 sernum="14925B00" intclass=0x08
intsubclass=0x06
dev.umass.1.%parent: uhub4

Following added to /etc/devd.conf:
# Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3
attach 200 {
match "vendor" "0x0718";
match "product" "0x0081";
match "serial" "14925B00";
action "touch /tmp/Imation-Flash-Drive-detected";
};


Could I know why the flash drive is not detected on attach?

The USB subsystem isn't currently equipped to notify devd (technically,
the devctl_notify function isn't used in the USB stack). So the only
notification you'll get is when devfs creates a device. Since there is
no predictable link between a USB device and a disk device, info from
the USB stack would be less then usefull.

You can check this by reading from /dev/devctrl (when devd is not
running, since this device can only be opened by one program at a time)
just after you plugged in the device. For my usb thumbdrive I get:

cat /dev/devctl
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=pass2
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=da0
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=da0s1
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=msdosfs/RFS1

While sysctl gives:

dev.umass.0.%desc: vendor 0x3538 USB Mass Storage Device, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
dev.umass.0.%driver: umass
dev.umass.0.%location: port=4 interface=0
dev.umass.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x3538 product=0x0042 devclass=0x00 devsubclass=0x00 release=0x0100 sernum="000000000004E1" intclass=0x08 intsubclass=0x06
dev.umass.0.%parent: uhub4

So for now, you'll have to match on the creation of da* devices, or
labels if you use those.


Roland
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