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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/dev')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/dev/usb/usbdevs | 31 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs b/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs index 66d0f72e596f..cc7362b9637b 100644 --- a/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs +++ b/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs @@ -40,20 +40,37 @@ $FreeBSD$ /* * List of known USB vendors * - * Please note that these IDs do not do anything. Adding an ID here and + * Adding an ID and its string description for a device to the usbdevs file, + * enables the USB stack to print a useful description of the device that was + * connected. + * + * The ID should be added in usbdevs and then the files usbdevs.h and + * usbdevs_data.h need to be regenerated. + * + * # edit usbdevs + * make -f Makefile.usbdevs + * # test your change + * cd ../../modules/usb + * make + * # commit, if appropriate + * cvs -m "ID for device XYZ" commit usbdevs + * # commit the derived files after the $ FreeBSD $ has been updated. + * cvs commit usbdevs.h usbdevs_data.h + * + * Please note that these IDs do not do anything. Adding an ID in usbdevs and * regenerating the usbdevs.h and usbdevs_data.h only makes a symbolic name - * available to the source code and does not change any functionality, nor - * does it make your device available to a specific driver. - * It will however make the descriptive string available if a device does not - * provide the string itself. + * available to the source code and does not change any functionality, nor does + * it make your device available to a specific driver. It will however make + * the descriptive string available if a device does not provide the string + * itself. * * After adding a vendor ID VNDR and a product ID PRDCT you will have the * following extra defines: * #define USB_VENDOR_VNDR 0x???? * #define USB_PRODUCT_VNDR_PRDCT 0x???? * - * You may have to add these defines to the respective probe routines to - * make the device recognised by the appropriate device driver. + * You will have to add these defines to the respective probe routines to make + * the device recognised by the appropriate device driver. */ vendor AOX 0x03e8 AOX, Inc. |