USB vendore designations..

[Julian Elischer]

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 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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but there are dvices that use the definitions there to probe, so we do need the 
definitions. Just the strings are not so important.. I've used the tables in the 
past.