usbdevs -v

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:17:15PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 March 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >> So what's the new way to say usbdevs -v?  usbconfig list doesn't list
> >> device IDs.  And devinfo doesn't show a device unless it is attached
> >> to a driver.
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> > usbconfig dump_device_desc | grep id
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> Is this usbconfig interface planned to be the only remaining tool?  Having only
> those difficult to remember long form commands makes this tool quite user
> unfriendly.  In my own system, I'm going to have to implement a shell shim, to
> help me out.  Doesn't this seem hard to remember, to anyone else?

As I have already said on this thread there is an open task to implement
usbdevs compat to usbconfig. Once this is done the problem is moot :)


Andrew