Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:03:47 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB_VERBOSE and vendor-/productnames Message-ID: <20100914210347.GA87874@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009142231.41221.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20100914002017.GA97489@freebsd.org> <201009141400.00427.hselasky@c2i.net> <20100914202546.GA80216@freebsd.org> <201009142231.41221.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Tue Sep 14 10, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > 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. "The contents of the database and the generated files can be distributed under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (version 2 or later) or of the 3-clause BSD License." :) > > --HPS -- a13x
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