[oe] [PATCH] introduction of virtual/libusb0

[Stanislav Brabec]

Philip Balister wrote:

>Until mainstream 
>distros go libusb1 + libusb-compat, there is not much motivation to 
>resolve the issue in gnuradio.

openSUSE 11.2 will probably do it.

> I think there are only a small handful of apps that do not use the 
> public libusb interface.
> 
> Do you have a specific package you are having issues with? Take a look 
> at the gnuradio.inc file to see how we solved the problem there.

I did never touch gnuradio, but I seen mails in the list.

There were problems in past with libusb-compat and:

gphoto, f-spot: Problems were fixed before libusb-compat-0.1.0.

gpsbabel + Garmin GPS = depended on undocumented libusb0 USB endpoint
direction sanitization. Fixed in libusb-compat-0.1.1.

gphoto + no USB subsystem: Crash after initialization failure. Fixed
in libusb-compat-0.1.2.

There are no known issues with libusb-compat-0.1.2 yet.


To resume my plan:

Introduce virtual/libusb0 for now and set is as default to
libusb-compat.

When all problems of libusb-compat will be fixed, drop libusb-0
completely and optionally replace virtual/libusb0 by libusb-compat.


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Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus