On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:24:04PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> So, I'm writing the libusb people so that they are aware
> of the problem and can make the necessary changes
> when they decide to release a new API.

> I don't really have any questions, except perhaps whether the
> designers consider this a feature rather than a design flaw
> and never plan to fix it.

These two kind of go together. libusb 0.1 wasn't designed all that
much. I see it more as a test version - which became quite widely
used where it did the job well enough.


> I may have mis-understood and so be contacting the wrong people.
> If so I apologize.

Nah, I for one appreciate your input.


> I think the work-around is to always run lsusb as root.

Yep.


> A corollary would be to document the problem in the lsusb
> man page.

Can you help with this? Maybe talk to the usbutils people? Best case
send them a patch for the man page.


//Peter



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