On Tuesday 14 September 2010 02:20:17 Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > a lot of people report issues where usbconfig doesn't show a vendor or > device name, although an usbdevs entry exists. i found a few replies to > those reports by hps@ stating that USB_VERBOSE needs to be enabled. > > could anybody explain why? if that option needs to be enabled in order to > see vendor and device names in usbconfig how come that even without it i > see most of the vendor and device names with usbconfig:
Hi, The reason the option is not default, is that the verbose database consume a couple of hundred kilobytes. > > ugen0.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) > pwr=SAVE ugen1.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL > (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE ugen2.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST > spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE ugen3.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus3, cfg=0 > md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE ugen4.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at > usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE ugen5.1: <UHCI root HUB > Intel> at usbus5, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE ugen6.1: <UHCI > root HUB Intel> at usbus6, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE > ugen7.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) > pwr=SAVE ugen3.2: <product 0x2514 vendor 0x0424> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST > spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE ugen1.2: <Dell USB Keyboard Dell> at usbus1, > cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.3: <Razer 1600dpi Mouse > Razer> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON > > my guess would be that these devices are missing the iManufacturer and/or > iProduct string, but that's just a wild guess. > > if that is the case wouldn't it be possible to check for a usbdevs entry in > case one of those strings don't exist and if there's an entry in usbdevs > use it? > > i think the option USB_VERBOSE is not really accurate in this particular > case. people who want usbconfig to output the vendor and product name > actually want less verbosity (i.e. no product/vendor hex ids). I'm not sure if compiling this information into usbdevs will be any better. --HPS _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"