Henry: >> How does it compare with the existing prtconf and cfgadm interfaces? > prtconf and cfgadm can be used to get more information besides USB > devices, lsusb is only focus on usb devices information. In fact, you > can get lots of same information by prtconf. [...] > In fact, usbutils developement is not very active these days, and the > community keep a list in some webpage, and append the list until someone > give them the new information. > Since it keep changing, so difficult to packaging, and if remotely > queriy, I am afraid they can't provide the stable services, e.g. server > , bandwith, etc...
To me, this doesn't sound like a very compelling reason to integrate usbutils into Solaris. Especially when you consider section 2.2 which highlights that some features of usbutils are disabled on Solaris due to kernel differences. The current materials implies in section 3.3 and 3.4 that the main reason to integrate usbutils is because the user needs tools to get USB-related information, and that such tools don't exist on Solaris. In other words, what value does usbutils add for Solaris. Now that we know that other tools do exist on Solaris, we probably should rethink our justification for adding usbutils.
