CFR: usb switchover patches

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20090220100115.R53478 at maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
>            "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net> writes:
> : On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> :
> : > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:37:40PM -0800, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> : >> Hi,
> : >>
> : >>
> : >> I have put together a proposed set of changes for moving USB2 to its
> : >> permanent location. The layout has some differences to how it is right
> : >> now so I am looking for feedback.
> : >>
> : >> The changeover requires that the old usb stack be available until 8.0 is
> : >> branched and moves it from sys/dev/usb to sys/legacy/dev/usb. The reason
> : >> for this location is to reduce the changes in #includes (using -I
> : >> compiler hacks). The patch doesnt show userland changes required for
> : >> usbdevs and friends but they will be done.
> : >
> : > Also, I wasnt planning on keeping the old usb kernel modules hooked into
> : > the build unless someone particularly wants them. They can all still be
> : > built into the kernel.
> :
> : what about renaming it to dev/usb1 instead of starting another top
> : level directory in sys/ ? I mean I like legacy and would prefer to
> : move netinet/ in there asap but;-))
>
> We'd have to hack all the old usb1 drivers.  Moving to
> sys/legacy/dev/usb means minimal frobbing of the code.

ok, that explains. #include <hell>.

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