Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:53:32PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 15:35, Greg KH wrote:
> > After over a year since the last release, I'd like to announce the
> > release of usbutils 0.81.  It can be found at the traditionally horrible
> > sf.net download page:
> >        https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3581
> >
> > We've switched over to using git for development now, which makes things
> > much easier than the old cvs tree.  The tree can be found on both
> > kernel.org and github.com if you want to fork it and send us changes
> > easier:
> >        http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbutils.git
> >        http://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/tree/master
> >
> > I've pushed all patches that were in the Gentoo and SuSE usbutils trees
> > into this release.  If there are outstanding patches from other distros,
> > I'd be very interested in getting them integrated in.
> 
> looks like update-usbids.sh was forgotten from EXTRA_DIST in
> Makefile.am so the released tarball doesnt have the script ;(

Care to send a patch?

> having to manually run `sed` on the scripts/man pages is annoying when
> moving the ids file ... any chance of converting those to normal
> configure generated files ?  or is there hard resistance to that ?

No objection from me, have a patch?  :)

> i see `usbmodules` has been punted.  was there a reason for that ?

It was for 2.4 kernels only.

> find being able to run `usbmodules` pretty useful ... i wrote a script
> for fun:
> http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/usbutils/files/usbmodules.sh

Did that work on any 2.6 kernel?

There's no reason we can't add "-k" support to lsusb like lspci has to
show the modules assigned to different devices.

thanks,

greg k-h