Dorky usbdevs question

[Julian Elischer]

Barry Bouwsma wrote:

>If I may ask, what sort of policy is there on updating usbdevs
>and its ilk?  (also concerning 4.x)
>
>Are new entries added on a case-by-case basis, or is an occasional
>wholesale sync against some other source -- say, the NetBSD usbdevs
>for example -- performed on occasion?
>
>I ask because I've added a few devices locally to my usbdevs, and
>many of them have already been present in NetBSD.
>

we add entries whenever we find some and we have the time/energy.

>
>At the last time I hacked my usbdevs, I came up with size differences
>like this:
>-rw-r--r--  1 beer  wheel  65281 Sep 23 10:13 usbdevs.h-LATEST_RELENG4
>-rw-r--r--  1 beer  wheel   2300 Oct  8 21:21 usbdevs.h-latest-patch
>-rw-r--r--  1 beer  wheel  65763 Oct  9 09:12 usbdevs.h-before-NetBSD
>-r--r--r--  1 beer  wheel  90900 Nov  2 19:52 usbdevs.h
>
>As you see, there's a heap more in the netbsd-based usbdevs.h that I
>ended up using, than is present in today's 4.x usbdevs.h (unchanged
>since 20.sep as seen above).
>
>I think it would be nice if all the usbdevs files (4.x, 5.x, -current,
>netbsd, others) were as similar as possible.  Otherwise, I'll need to
>see how much in addition to the -latest-patch above I need for 4.x to
>perform for me as the Big File, and submit that...
>

If you submit patches for merging in from all sources, the we can 
certainly commit them.
there isn't much risk in identifying extra devices.

>
>
>thanks
>barry bouwsma
>
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