On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> On 13/04/15(Mon) 17:49, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Attached below an updated patch that makes the layout a bit more sensible.
> 
> It's nice it works. 
> 
> Now like various students that applied for the GSoC you've done the
> first step.  The interesting part of that GSoC is also the boring part:
> the parser.  How are you gonna deal with AUDIO, VIDEO and HID descriptors?
> 
> I'm asking the question but I'm not really interested in the answer.  I
> don't see the point of having multiple people working on the same task.
> But if a student is selected for this task, you might want to discuss
> that with him.

Sure, that makes sense.

> Honestly if you are looking for an easy task to contribute to the USB
> land in OpenBSD you could have asked before, there's a lot to do :)

I should have I guess.  The gsoc page was tempting even if I am not a
student.

> So here's a small task, just for you:  can you add an option to
> usbdev(8) to enable/disable USB bus probing?   By default it would be
> "on", just like know: when you plug a device is it detected/attached.
> 
> If you turn it "off" to new device will be attached and port events
> will simply be acknowledged?

Will have a look at that.

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