Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:56:05 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: julian@vicor.com Cc: lennart@augustsson.net Subject: Re: USB vendore designations.. Message-ID: <20041229.115605.74748430.imp@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <41D2FD16.1060108@vicor.com> References: <41CBF07C.3040108@augustsson.net> <20041229.102034.58436835.imp@bsdimp.com> <41D2FD16.1060108@vicor.com>
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From: Julian Elischer <julian@vicor.com> Subject: Re: USB vendore designations.. Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:53:10 -0800 > > > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <41CBF07C.3040108@augustsson.net> > > Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes: > > [[ NetBSD uses the form Foo and FreeBSD uses Foo Inc or Foo Electric ]] > > : I would nnot consider the expanded definitions as > > : progress. I would not apply the patch. I'm of the > > : old school that thinks that even a few kB are worth > > : saving. :) > > > > I agree. In fact, I'm in the process of merging together the FreeBSD > > and NetBSD usbdevs and one of the things I'm doing is removing the > > extranious Inc, Electric, Technologies, etc where FreeBSD and NetBSD > > conflict. > > > > In fact, I've thought about doing the same thing to the NetBSD file > > where it is inconsistant, but so far haven't asked if that's OK. I'd > > also thought about merging the FreeBSD vendor/devices into NetBSD, > > but that's a lot of extra bytes into the table... > > there is also the LINUX table. > a competent perl hacker could write something to merge that with us too. That would be someone else. The *BSD world should really have one table, and 'contiential drift' has happened in the 5 years or so this table has been out there. Warner
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