On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:34:50AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2010 06:05:09 Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:53:43AM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm guessing this is for lsusb, right? Do the bsds really use > > > > usbutils? I never realized that... > > > > > > > > I'll queue this up, thanks. > > > > > > Yes, it is in the Ports system. > > > http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/usbutils/ > > > > > > Before my FreeBSD 8.0 partition went haywire, I used usbutils under it. > > > > > > Before FreeBSD 8, "usbdevs" is a native utility which is similar to > > > lsusb. > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usbdevs&apropos=0&sektion=0&man > > > path=FreeBSD+7.3-RELEASE&format=html > > > > > > Since FreeBSD 8.0, the new one is called "usbconfig". > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usbconfig&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma > > > npath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html > > > > > > But I still prefers to use lsusb. > > > > Nice to know, thanks. > > > > If I move lsusb to use libusb 1.x, will that be an issue for FreeBSD? > > Hi Greg, > > In FreeBSD 8 and later there is no problem about that. LibUSB 0.1 and 1.0 are > now part of the base system. Three USB API's are offered: > > libusb v0.1 (100% Compatible with other OS) > libusb v1.0 (100% Compatible with other OS) > libusb v2.0 (Currently BSD specific) Great, thanks for letting me know. The next version of lsusb should be using libusb 1.0, if for no other reason than to enable distros from having to ship libusb 0.1 anymore :) 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
