USB vendore designations..

[Julian Elischer]

Warner Losh wrote:

>From: Julian Elischer <julian at vicor.com>
>Subject: Re: USB vendore designations..
>Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:53:10 -0800
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>>M. Warner Losh wrote:
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>>>In message: <41CBF07C.3040108 at augustsson.net>
>>>            Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net> writes:
>>>[[ NetBSD uses the form Foo and FreeBSD uses Foo Inc or Foo Electric ]]
>>>: I would nnot consider the expanded definitions as
>>>: progress.  I would not apply the patch.  I'm of the
>>>: old school that thinks that even a few kB are worth
>>>: saving. :)
>>>
>>>I agree.  In fact, I'm in the process of merging together the FreeBSD
>>>and NetBSD usbdevs and one of the things I'm doing is removing the
>>>extranious Inc, Electric, Technologies, etc where FreeBSD and NetBSD
>>>conflict.
>>>
>>>In fact, I've thought about doing the same thing to the NetBSD file
>>>where it is inconsistant, but so far haven't asked if that's OK.  I'd
>>>also thought about merging the FreeBSD vendor/devices into NetBSD,
>>>but that's a lot of extra bytes into the table...
>>>      
>>>
>>there is also the LINUX table.
>>a competent perl hacker could write something to merge that with us too.
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>That would  be someone else.  The *BSD world should really have one
>table, and 'contiential drift' has happened in the 5 years or so this
>table has been out there.
>

so how do we stop further continental drift?

Lennart, As the original author of teh USB code, you have a unique 
perspective here.
We have a probelm with our USB code procedures in that we have a desire to
maintain compatibility with you, yet we have several people who are 
doing work on USB
(including one who has rewritten parts of the drivers) who do not have a 
very strong
motivation to send NetBSD PRs  etc.

What is your situation at  the moment.. You commented that it has been 
some time
since you were closely working with the EHCI driver. Should we send 
changes to
you for approval, inclusion and re-integration back to FreeBSD?
Do you have time for that sort of thing?  should we make some 
person/group of people
a USB cabal? I know that I'd like to make lots of simple changes such as 
adding
coments in places where the code gets trickier, but I'm very loath to 
make the diffs
any greater than they are. It is very hard to work on the USB code when 
there seems to
not be a procedure for getting that work put back into the sources.





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