USB stack (was: USB scanner unrecognized ...)

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:20:42 +0200, Hasso Tepper wrote:

> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>> Then devices should be probed and if there is a better match than ugen
>> and if the ugen device is not open, it should be detached from ugen and
>> attached to the new driver.  Do you think this would be possible?
> 
> There is a lot of things that suck in USB stack all BSD's are using at
> the moment. This particular one is one of smallest ones I worry about
> ;).
> 
> There is a light though. There is a new USB stack known as HPS or
> usb4bsd under development in FreeBSD. This particular problem is already
> resolved there as well. Also two biggest problems with current stack -
> sucking isochronous transfer support and sucking ugen.
> 
> See these for details:
> http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/usb4bsd/
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/
usb/src/sys/dev/usb
> 
> Volunteers to port needed ;P.

See here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-January/081682.html

Cheers,
Mezz