CFR: usb switchover patches
Andrew Thompson
thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 23 15:43:13 PST 2009
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:37:14PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 19:37 -0800, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I have put together a proposed set of changes for moving USB2 to its
> > permanent location. The layout has some differences to how it is right
> > now so I am looking for feedback.
> >
> > The changeover requires that the old usb stack be available until 8.0 is
> > branched and moves it from sys/dev/usb to sys/legacy/dev/usb. The reason
> > for this location is to reduce the changes in #includes (using -I
> > compiler hacks). The patch doesnt show userland changes required for
> > usbdevs and friends but they will be done.
> >
> > Some ports will break. Any that exist solely for the old usb stack can
> > be marked broken (like udesc_dump). I dont know that the fallout will be
> > like for the others, maybe portmgr would be interested in doing a build
> > test.
> >
> > The change roughly goes
> >
> > svn move sys/dev/usb -> sys/legacy/dev/usb
> > svn move sys/dev/usb2 -> sys/dev/usb (with fixups, see below)
>
> The headers for usb are no longer installed. This rebreaks hal as I
> attempt to build both backends. Can you make sure the old usb headers
> are also installed (/usr/include/dev/legacy/usb)? Without this, I will
> have to redo the hal build code.
I was hoping I wouldnt have to do this as it breaks kdump since they
both define the same typedefs. kdump builds its tables from trolling
/usr/include.
I will have a look at this.
Andrew
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