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On Tuesday 14 September 2010 22:25:46 Alexander Best wrote:
> also i've been wondering why freebsd keeps its own set of a usb device db?
> the databse at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb-ids.html seems very active.
> can't we just use a script to create usbdevs from that db? that's how pci
> ids are mapped to vendors/products on freebsd (see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg124948.html).

If we don't have to GPL the resulting .h and .c files.

--HPS