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Re: [coldsync-hackers] ColdSync, OpenBSD and USB
I think that if there's a common user-space library (e.g., libusb as someone
mentioned), this might be a better alternative. You get one implementation
in coldsync for various platforms and get to avoid an infinite series of
reboots while trying to figure out how to support a new Palm platform.
louie
> 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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> Null modems were created when God got no handshake.
>
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