usb/137189: [usb][patch] create and use sysctl nodes for HID report descriptors

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

The following reply was made to PR usb/137189; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-usb at FreeBSD.org
Cc: hselasky at c2i.net
Subject: Re: usb/137189: [usb][patch] create and use sysctl nodes for HID
 report descriptors
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:51:43 +0400

 Hans Petter, good day.
 
 HPS wrote:
 > Can you change your patch, so that usbhidctl uses libusb to get the
 > HID descriptor, instead of sysctl?
 
 I can, but how to relate the device name under devfs to the descriptor
 to be retrieved?  I can enumerate all HID descriptors via libusb, but I
 can't currently say which device uses them.  And I don't want to torture
 users with the crawl over the list of all vendor/device pairs for the
 discovered HID descriptors and ask to choose one -- that's not
 productive.
 
 Why do you dislike the sysctl approach?  It is simple and reliable.
 -- 
 Eygene
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