On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > However, hwdb only contains vendor, product, class, subclass and > > protocol. So if you drop usb.ids the rest of the information will be > > lost. > > > > Maybe split the rest out into a separate file and ship only that? > > > > Or is there a way to get this info into hwdb? Kay? > > It should work to add some of that data to the existing modalias, > right? For some things we probably need to "invent" new synthetic > modaliases to query these strings. We should give it a try, I think. > Having lsusb shipping a private file only for that seems ugly. These are things that are just described in the USB-IF specifications, (HID table commands, class codes, etc.) and really should not be part of any "hardware database" as they don't change, and come directly from the spec. I can just move those into the usbutils package, and get them removed from the usb.ids file, sound good? 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
