"Dunlap, Randy" wrote:
> Maybe these are distribution issues and not developer issues.
> If so, please tell me. In either case, I think that if we don't address
> them (or some of them), we (the linux-usb mailing list & project)
> will be getting a lot of email from newbie USB users about
> "this device doesn't work" and "the driver module didn't load" etc.
Maybe two mailing lists - usb-devel and usb-help?
> Examples:
> . /etc/fstab entry to mount /proc/bus/usb automatically
How about the following after /proc:
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
It won't work under every circumstance, but it will work most of the
time.
> I'm also a little concerned about the Linux USB Guide that
> Brad Hards has produced. It's a fine and useful document, but
> its size could keep newbie users from reading/using it.
Probably, although the web version is in nice chunks.
> Would it make sense to have a separate mini-howto for USB
> that only addresses user/usability/setup/config issues and not
> developer issues?
Cutting out whole sections and dividing it up is trivial. The hard part
is about reducing the detail in an individual entry. For example, the
next version has a long section about mouse install, since between
Xfree3.x, Xfree4.x and gpm, there are a lot of combinations. That is
ugly, but I don't know how to make a setup that can work in every case.
I am tempted to dump the user mode programming stuff (some of it to
perhaps become part of libusb), since it is fairly independent of Linux.
I could also dump the kernel info, since Deti did a much better job than
anything I could do, even given his stuff to work from. For an
indication of what this would look like, refer to
http://LinuxUSBGuide.sourceforge.net - version 1.0.4 got dropped in the
bitbucket, and 1.0.5 is essentially a user only version. It is still 46
pages though, and would likely be around 60 pages when complete with
just the drivers in the current kernel.
Would the intro to USB be better dumped as well?
I can also use the same source documents to make two (or more) different
versions - how would you like it divided up?
Comments?
Brad
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