HEADSUP new usb code coming in.

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Wed Aug 20 16:03:30 UTC 2008


On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:57:11 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>  
wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> > Q. Can we change the name from "usb2_" to my favorite name?
>> > A. No.   This is for a short period, stop being so annoying.
>>
>> Why not just "usb_"? You can then leave it as is then avoiding violating
>> POLA second time. Otherwise people would confuse it with USB 2.0.
>>
>
> Else you get symbol collisions with the old USB stack ...

At least, can you document it? Like add an explain about that usb2 is just  
a name, not USB 2.0, that way no users can mistake it for USB 2.0. Even  
smarter people can mistake it for USB 2.0, btw.

Cheers,
Mezz

> --HPS


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