Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:40:59 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Cc: ?FreeBSD USB Mailing List? <freebsd-usb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB_VERBOSE and vendor-/productnames Message-ID: <20101018154059.GB10306@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <FFC499E1-B967-49FE-84B0-70C0FA7D1741@van-laarhoven.org> References: <20100914002017.GA97489@freebsd.org> <201009141400.00427.hselasky@c2i.net> <20100914202546.GA80216@freebsd.org> <201009142231.41221.hselasky@c2i.net> <FFC499E1-B967-49FE-84B0-70C0FA7D1741@van-laarhoven.org>
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On Thu Sep 16 10, Nick Hibma wrote: > From: > > http://www.linux-usb.org/usb-ids.html > > "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." > > Do you want me make this list available in our source tree? any progress on this task? ;) cheers. alex > > Steps: > 1) Write a script to download it and convert it to our usbdevs*.h files. > 2) Match the entries with our own and add usbdevs*_legacy.h for FBSD8 systems, so recompilation of existing drivers is straightforward. > 3) Test. Review. Bikeshed. Rinse. Repeat. > 4) Commit. > > Nick > > > On 14 Sep 2010, at 22:31, 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. > > > > --HPS > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- a13x
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