On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:12:53AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote: > > > > If the structure is going to be exported from the kernel, then __u16 > > > > and __u32 should be used, as they are the proper types for this. These > > > > types are portable accross all platforms. > > > > > > They are not portable outside Linux. This is inappropriate in what needs > > > to become a _standardised_ interface. > > > > Standardized across what? Different OS's? I'm not going down the UDI > > rathole, been there before with the OpenUSBDI spec, and I don't want to > > go back :) > Settle down. > Right now, the USB Uninterruptable Power Supply people only do Linux, because > of Paul's work on hiddev. But applications like apcupsd and NUT are cross > platform - they have to be, because this stuff gets deployed in server rooms, > and the whole world is not Linux. There are moves to implement a hiddev style > interface for the *BSD people. > The BSD guys helped us plenty - we shouldn't make their life hard now.
They already have a raw HID interface I think - they had it first. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
