USB_VERBOSE and vendor-/productnames

[Alexander Best]

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
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