Re: [coldsync-hackers] ColdSync, OpenBSD and USB

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers at ooblick dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:38:23PM -0400, Andrew Arensburger wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Michael Lestinsky wrote:
> > > >      uvisor - USB support for the Handspring Visor
> > > 
> > > 	Cool. If this works, then you should be able to use 'listen
> > > serial' under OpenBSD. I suspect this might be a better idea in the long
> > > term than to try to use the FreeBSD USB code (less "special" stuff to rely
> > > on).
> 
> You man "more special stuff in the kernel" and less in user space?  And
> this is a good thing?  There's a reason why I did the Visor implementation
> in coldsync in user-space code rather than in the kernel; it didn't need
> to be there.

	I meant in the sense of streamlining ColdSync. If every OS
that supports USB also supports a way of establishing a USB connection
that looks like a serial one, then that's less that needs to be
maintained in ColdSync itself.
	I guess I could just as easily have said, "more stuff that's
not my effing problem," but that would sound cranky.

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