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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:42 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/usb usbdevs.h usbdevs_data.h
Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
	"Erik H. Bakke" <ebakke@trolltech.com>
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On 10-Dec-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:59:15 +0100, "Erik H. Bakke" wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I'm showing my ignorance here, but I'll still ask.
>> Is there any reason why usbdevs.h and usbdevs_data.h are not generated
>> automatically by the build?
> 
> I've been asked this message by someone else in private mail as well.
> 
> Maybe it's just difficult ensuring that the generated header files are
> in place before dependents are built?
> 
> Try your hand at a patch and see what Nick Hibma <n_hibma@FreeBSD.org>
> thinks. :-)

Anyone feel brave enough to do the same for syscalls.h and friends? :-P
I think the idea there is that syscalls aren't added very often.  Perhaps
usbdevs changes often enough that this argument doesn't work for them.

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