Should all known devices be added to usbdevs?

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Mon Nov 12 07:07:42 UTC 2012


On Monday 12 November 2012 02:38:32 Yuri wrote:
> I see that many storage and network devices aren't in usbdevs.
> graphics/libgphoto2 package actually has more complete list. But it
> looks like they only process PTP/MTP storage interfaces.
> Should we add to usbdevs missing devices from the list in
> graphics/libgphoto2?
> 
> For ex. I am looking at smartphone, it has MTP USB storage interface
> recognized by gphoto2, but FreeBSD also recognizes the umodem device,
> and this smartphone isn't in the list.
> 
> Yuri

It is a good question.

To some people it might help, though the usbdevs is mostly for vendor class 
devices, I.E. non-standard defined drivers.

--HPS


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