Irene Huang writes: > > As we can see, more and more systems support USB, and more and more > > devices are using USB to connect. The USB utility is necessary for > > the system, it can give user some useful information, in fact lots > > of USB > > tool is developed and used. Solaris does not has this type of tool > > for user to view the system USB and the information about the devices > > connected to USB, so this tool will benefit Solaris and make it more > > competitive.
How does it compare with the existing prtconf and cfgadm interfaces? > > It's composed of lsusb and update-usbids. The update-usbids is in > > the > > source codes, which is used to download the current version of the > > USB > > ID list, named usb.ids, which requires Wget-1.10.2 or > > Lynx-2.8.6rel.5. > > update-usbids is run to get the latest usb list into the source > > code, > > and then when building the source codes, this latest list will be > > installed into your system. Later user can get the latest list by Why isn't the most current data delivered through packaging or set up to be queried remotely? What do you mean by "when building the source codes?" Are end users expected to recompile this utility on their own? If they're not, then why is that part of the delivery? > > /usr/share/usb.ids Project Private A list of all known USB ID I don't see how that's going to work. "/usr" is read-only inside sparse-root zones, and is generally unwritable to non-privileged users. "/var" sounds slightly better, given the nature of this file. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
