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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Thursday 28 August 2008, Halit Canbazoglu wrote:
> we, at vicor, use freebsd and redhat, it will be good for us
> to be able to use the linux compatible interface for USB devices.
> we still use FreeBSD 4.11, i wonder anybody is planning to
> back port this new USB interface. since it's separated from the
> earlier USB layer, i believe it might not be that hard, at the same
> time not easy to say.
>
> thanks .. halit ..

Hi,

It might be some work to do the backport, but it is not impossible. Personally 
I have no plans to backport the code to FreeBSD 4.11.

--HPS