Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Subject: Re: where is kern.ca.da.no_6_byte? Message-ID: <3F1E3270.A952B2DB@mindspring.com> References: <20030720125750.F19406@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <20030722192024.GA47886@panzer.kdm.org> <3F1E2BB9.64E9A616@mindspring.com> <20030723064844.GA85364@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:21PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, USB is a Very Black Art(tm), and has > > been since day one. 8-(. You have to wonder how Windows > > manages... > > Windows manages because it is in the vendor's interest for it to work > and as such their install .inf script does the right thing, for some > value of DTRT. This is the conspiracy theorist answer. I'm not saying that it is wrong, but it seems to me that more stuff is "Plug-and-play" without third party drivers in Windows, and without quirking. If you want to push it out a bit, most USB stuff I've seen also works with Macintosh systems, and *definitely* can't do anything with a vendor supplied driver CDROM, so It Just Works(tm). Maybe there is something to learn from Darwin in this area... I don't know how public the USB code is at this point there, or if it is published at all (though I thought it was). -- Terry
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