USB vendore designations..

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <41CCFB49.707 at elischer.org>
            Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <41CB38A7.5020700 at vicor.com>
: >             Julian Elischer <julian at 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