On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:35:35PM +0400, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > On 07/27/2010 07:59 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >Very nice. > Thanks :) > > >Would it make sense to add this tool to the usbutils package for wider > >distribution? > Well, the usbutils maintainers would know better, of course. That would be me :) > However, I see a problem here: usbutils uses libusb 0.1, while > hid-dump uses libusb 1.0 for its device reattaching and async I/O. The > libusb 1.0 is not backward-compatible and depending on two similar > libraries or even using libusb-compat-0.1 would be too much, IMHO. I have patches to convert usbutils to use libusb 1.0, I just need to take the time to fix them up and merge them. > I guess it is not a big deal to rewrite lsusb for libusb 1.0 (and would be > an interesting exercise), but it still requires some effort and political > leverage. The majority of the work is already done, I just need to fix it up. So, if that's taken care of, would you have any objections to adding the tool to the main usbutils repo? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
