Linux patches for 1.0.9 release

[Pete Batard]

I have now applied the first 2 to libusbx master [1], which therefore 
marks the actual beginning of our fork.

You may notice that I mistakenly added a "Linux:" prefix to the second 
one, which I only realized after pushing, but, while I'll try to avoid 
that in the future, I'm not exactly planning to go out of my way fix 
innocuous mistakes such as these.

I decided to apply these directly to master, rather than go through a 
branch, because:

1. At least the first 2 have been previously acked by Peter, and they 
looked fine to me too.

2. Those have been posted those for some time, and nobody objected.

3. Come what may, I don't really see a problem applying things that at 
least a couple of people have deemed go for mainline, even if someone 
later makes the case to have them reverted/amended. Better 2 steps 
forwards and one step back than not making a move and we really 
shouldn't be afraid to try to push master forward.


If I'm happy with them, I'm planning to push the other 4 in a couple 
hours as well, so if you have something to say about Hans' patches, 
now's the time.

After that I'll produce an xusb addon patch for review, with the aim of 
pushing it tomorrow.

If there's anything anybody would like to have before we go 1.0.9-rc4, 
please try to send it to the list before Thursday.

Finally, am I the only one unhappy with lsusb having (unilaterally?) 
been renamed to listdevs? If we are worried about name collision, which 
I don't exactly remember people complaining about, and since a few of us 
use that sample regularly, I think maybe a shorter name such as lsdevs 
or even lsu may be better. Anybody would also like to see the litsdevs 
name either reverted or changed to something else?

Regards

/Pete

[1] 
http://libusbx.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libusbx/libusbx;a=summary