Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:26:08 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB device implementation Message-ID: <200601171326.16816.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060117120347.zs7gpbs6jog80444@netchild.homeip.net> References: <1137394747.2004.75.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> <1137462090.835.24.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> <20060117120347.zs7gpbs6jog80444@netchild.homeip.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday 17 January 2006 06:03, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > "Michael S. Eubanks" <mse_software@charter.net> wrote: > > Okay. I will look into it some more. I need to get better idea > > of how the USB driver code works. It looks like there are only > > minor differences between my current driver code and the NetBSD > > code. With respect to any questions and changes I make, should I > > contact mux@ directly using the email address listed on the > > contributors page? > > Every FreeBSD committer should expect to get a mail with some > questions, so mailing to mux@FreeBSD.org is not forbidden. :-) > > But he's not "the USB guy in the block". He just tries to port the > uhidev code (maybe because he needs it). So don't expect an answer > to every question. > > Unfortunately we don't have an active USB guru around, except > Hans-Petter Selasky (not a FreeBSD committer), but he develops a > rewritten-from-scratch USB stack. So don't expect him to be able to > answer questions reagarding the USB stack in -current. From my personal experience and just looking at the commiter that has been touching the usb files I'd add Ian Dowse <iedowse@freebsd.org> to that short guru list. He has been pretty busy recently, but if you're willing to do your homework I'm sure he'd be happy to answer any questions. > > So far HPS wasn't able to convince a committer to import his work. > Partly because we think that a USB stack which is shared between > the BSD's may be better, partly because the existing stack seems to > work good enough for those committers which may be willing to > import the new one or be able to mentor HPS. As Warner said it takes time to work through such a large change. Hans-Petter Selasky stack is trying to be free of the GIANT lock and that's a bit tricky with USB, but ultimately the direction we are heading for 7.0. -- Anish Mistry [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDzTbIxqA5ziudZT0RAgTHAKDM2dKTGIiQj7b/GozzaLIIB+tEngCfXKEz FVtaiZApEoBwoj/iDSzio6Y= =Rz+p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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