Dorky usbdevs question

[Barry Bouwsma]

If I may ask, what sort of policy is there on updating usbdevs
and its ilk?  (also concerning 4.x)

Are new entries added on a case-by-case basis, or is an occasional
wholesale sync against some other source -- say, the NetBSD usbdevs
for example -- performed on occasion?

I ask because I've added a few devices locally to my usbdevs, and
many of them have already been present in NetBSD.

At the last time I hacked my usbdevs, I came up with size differences
like this:
-rw-r--r--  1 beer  wheel  65281 Sep 23 10:13 usbdevs.h-LATEST_RELENG4
-rw-r--r--  1 beer  wheel   2300 Oct  8 21:21 usbdevs.h-latest-patch
-rw-r--r--  1 beer  wheel  65763 Oct  9 09:12 usbdevs.h-before-NetBSD
-r--r--r--  1 beer  wheel  90900 Nov  2 19:52 usbdevs.h

As you see, there's a heap more in the netbsd-based usbdevs.h that I
ended up using, than is present in today's 4.x usbdevs.h (unchanged
since 20.sep as seen above).

I think it would be nice if all the usbdevs files (4.x, 5.x, -current,
netbsd, others) were as similar as possible.  Otherwise, I'll need to
see how much in addition to the -latest-patch above I need for 4.x to
perform for me as the Big File, and submit that...


thanks
barry bouwsma