From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 19:47:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E5E16A4D0 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D6043D31 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:47:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112697A455; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:47:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41B0C2ED.5000706@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:47:57 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barry Bouwsma References: <200412021119.iB2BJGl20421@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> In-Reply-To: <200412021119.iB2BJGl20421@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dorky usbdevs question X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:47:59 -0000 Barry Bouwsma wrote: >If I may ask, what sort of policy is there on updating usbdevs >and its ilk? (also concerning 4.x) > >Are new entries added on a case-by-case basis, or is an occasional >wholesale sync against some other source -- say, the NetBSD usbdevs >for example -- performed on occasion? > >I ask because I've added a few devices locally to my usbdevs, and >many of them have already been present in NetBSD. > we add entries whenever we find some and we have the time/energy. > >At the last time I hacked my usbdevs, I came up with size differences >like this: >-rw-r--r-- 1 beer wheel 65281 Sep 23 10:13 usbdevs.h-LATEST_RELENG4 >-rw-r--r-- 1 beer wheel 2300 Oct 8 21:21 usbdevs.h-latest-patch >-rw-r--r-- 1 beer wheel 65763 Oct 9 09:12 usbdevs.h-before-NetBSD >-r--r--r-- 1 beer wheel 90900 Nov 2 19:52 usbdevs.h > >As you see, there's a heap more in the netbsd-based usbdevs.h that I >ended up using, than is present in today's 4.x usbdevs.h (unchanged >since 20.sep as seen above). > >I think it would be nice if all the usbdevs files (4.x, 5.x, -current, >netbsd, others) were as similar as possible. Otherwise, I'll need to >see how much in addition to the -latest-patch above I need for 4.x to >perform for me as the Big File, and submit that... > If you submit patches for merging in from all sources, the we can certainly commit them. there isn't much risk in identifying extra devices. > > >thanks >barry bouwsma > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >