Brian Cameron ??:
> 
> 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.
Thanks, Brian, seems there really is some block for usbutils 
integration, I will consider and discuss internally these days...

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