We need an active plan of action to fix libusb version 1.0

[John Marino]

On 1/5/2014 18:07, John Marino wrote:
> As yet another example of how our in-between libusb is deeply hurting
> us, I'm able to completely build the chromium browser after some heavy
> tweaking.
> 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't link.  It needs the new libusb, and it's
> deeply ingrained.  I was unsuccessful at removing all functionality that
> needs libusb, thus we still don't have a chromium package.
> 
> This is increasingly becoming a problem for us.
> We really need to have a working libusb (usb4bsd) established on this
> dev branch (3.7).
> 
> To progress, we need a complete inventory of what is wrong with libusb
> that is preventing it from being turned on as a standard.  Personally, I
> don't even know what's wrong with it other than it causes panics.
> 
> Then the second step is that we need somebody to volunteer to implement
> the identified fixes (and actually do it).
> 
> Any volunteers to spearhead finishing off libusb development?
> 

I just noticed on gitweb that Markus Pfeiffer (profmakx) has made over a
dozen commits in the last 24 hours, many of which seem related to USB.
Will these commits fix USB 1 support in DF and has default changed (or
will change)?

Thanks,
John