device filtering support

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 02/04/2012 02:09 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Hans de Goede<hdegoede at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>> I believe most of the use cases of libusb only cares about one or a few
>>> particular device, with known VID/PIDs. Therefore I do not see the need
>>> of enumerating all device.
>>
>> As the author of a piece of software which wants does care about any
>> random / all usb devices I respectfully disagree with this assumption.
>>
>
> The thing is that this may well work under Linux but certainly
> not Windows. You still need to install drivers for your random
> or all USB devices to talk to them and that is not feasible,

There already exists closed source software doing exactly what I want
on Windows, so it is feasible. I just want to have a FOSS implementation
of the same functionality.

Regards,

Hans