On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:42:58PM -0700, Jacek Pliszka wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Greg KH wrote: > > > usbview only displays what the device itself says it is. So if the > > Product string in the device does not say "Nomad II", usbview can not > > know to say this. > > Hmm, I have another idea. Would it be possible to create 'Known devices' > database for usbview? > > If no string is reported by the device, usbview would lookup this > simple database (preferrably simple text file > VendorId:ProductId String to be displayed ). > > What do you think about it?
If you look _way_ back in the archives I originally stated that I didn't want to add such a table to usbview. It would require me to keep it up to date, and I really don't want to do that :) If the device can't report what kind of device it is, why should I go through some extra effort to do it too? As someone who used to write USB firmware, I know it doesn't take much effort to add the strings to the device. Now Brad's patch is quite nice, but I don't really want to add it to the main usbview tree. I think the Corel people also did much the same thing a while ago for their "control panel" application which was based off of the usbview code. I wonder what happened to that program... thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
