Discussion is still on-going about whether to keep this project or not. The project team will come back with update in due time.
Thanks --Irene On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:21 +0800, Henry Zhang wrote: > > Brian Cameron ??????: > > > > Henry: > > > >>> How does it compare with the existing prtconf and cfgadm interfaces? > >> prtconf and cfgadm can be used to get more information besides USB > >> devices, lsusb is only focus on usb devices information. In fact, you > >> can get lots of same information by prtconf. > > [...] > >> In fact, usbutils developement is not very active these days, and the > >> community keep a list in some webpage, and append the list until > >> someone give them the new information. > >> Since it keep changing, so difficult to packaging, and if remotely > >> queriy, I am afraid they can't provide the stable services, e.g. > >> server , bandwith, etc... > > > > To me, this doesn't sound like a very compelling reason to integrate > > usbutils into Solaris. Especially when you consider section 2.2 which > > highlights that some features of usbutils are disabled on Solaris due > > to kernel differences. > > > > The current materials implies in section 3.3 and 3.4 that the main > > reason to integrate usbutils is because the user needs tools to get > > USB-related information, and that such tools don't exist on Solaris. > > In other words, what value does usbutils add for Solaris. > > > > Now that we know that other tools do exist on Solaris, we probably > > should rethink our justification for adding usbutils. > Thanks, Brian, seems there really is some block for usbutils > integration, I will consider and discuss internally these days...
