Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 
> > I could recompile and see the device listed as ugen(4):
> > 
> >   $ dmesg | grep pico-debug
> >   ugen1 at uhub4 port 2 "pico-debug CMSIS-DAP" rev 1.10/10.05 addr 2
> 
> "Peter Lawrence CMSIS-DAP Dapper Miser" is a rather large string
> especially as the device already provides one
> 
> why not just "pico-debug" or "Dapper Miser"?


I've been wondering about this for a while.


All of these strings go into all kernels, using memory.  If we know a
device provides a name, we always print the device-provided name, right?
Can we therefore skip the name entirely in usbdevs, or is usbdevs too dumb
to handle empty names?

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