[Libusbx-devel] Linux patches for 1.0.9 release

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 03/29/2012 01:53 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Pete Batard<pete at akeo.ie>  wrote:
>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusbx/roadmap
>>
>
> Regarding the roadmap, I would say that we should have
> a development branch for hot-plug asap to make the
> Linux and Mac OS X happier since 1.0.10, 1.0.11
> and 1.0.12 (libusbk integration) are mainly Windows.
>
> Hot-plug will be a big thing for all OS.
>
> Regarding the HID backend, OpenBSD may be an issue
> since it only support ugen driver (similar to the older
> FreeBSD version). For newer FreeBSD version, HPS
> seems to add a generic ugen interface along with HID
> interface for generic HID device so that libusb can
> be used with them. But I have not tested FreeBSD's
> libusb-1.0 for a while.

I don't think we should worry about having a HID backend
for platforms which have a proper way to get full access
to USB devices from userspace. AFAIK the windows HID
backend was done to allow easy access to HID devices
through libusb without the need to mess with a driver,
under Linux for example messing with a driver is never
needed, and AFAIK the same goes for *BSD* and Mac OS X.

Regards,

Hans