svn commit: r189248 - head

Warner Losh imp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 1 10:58:00 PST 2009


Author: imp
Date: Sun Mar  1 18:57:59 2009
New Revision: 189248
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/189248

Log:
  Add verbage about needing to remap libusb-0.1 to libusb20 to get old
  programs to work with the new usb stack.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Sun Mar  1 17:44:31 2009	(r189247)
+++ head/UPDATING	Sun Mar  1 18:57:59 2009	(r189248)
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
 	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
 	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
-	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg may still apply.
+	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
+	apply.
 
 20090217:
 	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
@@ -59,6 +60,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
 	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
 
+	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
+	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
+	be used for this:
+		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
+		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
+
 20090203:
 	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
 	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.


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