Re: usbutils - various patches to the lsusb.py script

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 12:02:07PM +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I accidentally ended up hacking on the lsusb.py script and now have an
> assorted collection of patches:
> 
> - Output (controllers, hubs, etc.) sorted numerically.
> - Color enabled by default when on a tty.
> - Added --long-options.
> - Replaced hand-rolled binary search with ordinary dict lookups;
>   lost the -w (--warn-if-unsorted) option in the process.
> - Cosmetic changes to make it look more like Python and less like C.
> - Some changes to the output formatting that I liked to have in my own
>   local version.
> 
> 

I've applied all of these patches now, except for the usb.ids error
message that I responded to.  Note, I do not know python well, if at
all, so I just had to take your word for most of these :)

I don't like the usb.ids error message that happens here, it's not
essential that that file be found, especially given that most distros do
not ship it anymore as they have switched over to the hw database
format.  So maybe we can just drop the "error" as the tool does work
without it, or look for the hwids data instead?

thanks,

greg k-h