Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:30:36 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: julian@elischer.org Cc: julian@vicor.com Subject: Re: USB vendore designations.. Message-ID: <20041225.203036.70797686.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <41CCFB49.707@elischer.org> References: <41CB38A7.5020700@vicor.com> <20041224.132339.88473596.imp@bsdimp.com> <41CCFB49.707@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <41CB38A7.5020700@vicor.com>
: > Julian Elischer <julian@vicor.com> writes:
: > : Lennart, Matt, Barry, USB hackers,
: > :
: > : On FreeBSD we have added vendor descriptiosn fo teh form
: > : XYZ electrical corp.
: > :
: > : where on NetBSD the same ID may be described as "XYZ"
: > :
: > : Is there a reason to go one way or the other?
: > : I'd rather not be different for no reason, but I'm loath to
: > : just discard information.
: > :
: > : thoughts?
: >
: > Doesn't matter in FreeBSD because we don't use the vendor strings the
: > way that NetBSD does. We don't[*] create large tables of them, which is
: > why NetBSD reduced their length...
: >
: > Warner
: >
: > [*] well, we can with USB_VERBOSE.
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:
: but there are dvices that use the definitions there to probe, so we do need the
: definitions. Just the strings are not so important.. I've used the tables in the
: past.
I don't understand what you are saying. The strings from usbdevs are
basically unused in FreeBSD.
Warner
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