usb/137189: [usb][patch] create and use sysctl nodes for HID report descriptors

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Tue Jul 28 11:51:47 UTC 2009


Hans Petter, good day.

HPS wrote:
> Can you change your patch, so that usbhidctl uses libusb to get the
> HID descriptor, instead of sysctl?

I can, but how to relate the device name under devfs to the descriptor
to be retrieved?  I can enumerate all HID descriptors via libusb, but I
can't currently say which device uses them.  And I don't want to torture
users with the crawl over the list of all vendor/device pairs for the
discovered HID descriptors and ask to choose one -- that's not
productive.

Why do you dislike the sysctl approach?  It is simple and reliable.
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