[Nut-upsdev] interesting libusb news

[Carlos Rodrigues]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Carlos Rodrigues
<carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Feb 13, 2008 4:16 PM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > while digging in the fingerprinting world [1], I come across the fpusb
>  >  > project, now renamed to libusb 1.0 [2].
>  >  >
>  >  > This will open up many interesting software enhancements in the FLOSS
>  >  > world, and especially to NUT.
>  >
>  >  Interesting find.
>  >
>  >  The main drawback at the moment is the following:
>  >
>  >  "Presently, libusb-1.0 only works on Linux, and as an initial
>  >  prototype the code is not structured with cross-platform portability
>  >  in mind."
>  >
>  >  Hopefully that will change.
>
>  AFAIK, libusb is quite proven on the Linux world, many projects use it
>  and many kernel drivers moved to userspace because of its existence.
>  But that's the problem, it's linux only.

Hmm, I was confusing libusb forks... I guess this shows how much I
know about this USB stuff (and how I jump in to comment without RTFA.)
:)

-- 
Carlos Rodrigues