USB vendore designations..

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Dec 24 12:25:58 PST 2004


In message: <41CB38A7.5020700 at vicor.com>
            Julian Elischer <julian at vicor.com> writes:
: Lennart, Matt, Barry, USB hackers,
: 
: On FreeBSD we have added vendor descriptiosn fo teh form
: XYZ electrical corp.
: 
: where on NetBSD the same ID may be described as "XYZ"
: 
: Is there a reason to go one way or the other?
: I'd rather not be different for no reason, but I'm loath to
: just discard information.
: 
: thoughts?

Doesn't matter in FreeBSD because we don't use the vendor strings the
way that NetBSD does.  We don't[*] create large tables of them, which is
why NetBSD reduced their length...

Warner

[*] well, we can with USB_VERBOSE.


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