Re: HEADSUP usb2 (usb4bsd) to become default in 2 weeks.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:19:44AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org> [081229 03:10] wrote:
> > [ Note: replies directed to list ]
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > There are some debugging sysctls which you can try to tune/increase:
> > > 
> > > hw.usb2.pr_recovery_delay: 250
> > > hw.usb2.ss_delay: 0
> > > hw.usb2.ehci.no_hs: 0 // this value is a boolean
> > 
> > Please.  Can we quickly rename this before it gets too ingrained?
> > 
> > "usb2" just implies too much the "USB 2.0 specification of April 2000"
> > vs. the 2nd USB implementation within FreeBSD.
> > 
> > To stop confusion between USB 2.0 spec and this work, can it be renamed
> > to "hpsusb", "usbhps", "usb4bsd", or even the dreaded over-used "usbNG"?
> 
> David, in about two weeks we're going to make "usb2" or "hpsusb" ( :) )
> the default, if things go well we're planning on cleaning it up
> and making it just "usb" within a few weeks after that.
>
> Let's not do this now though as we'll just wind up having to
> do it twice.  Rest assured we will get to it shortly.

Thanks Alfred.
Of course I knew it was about to become the default, but wasn't clear as
to what it would look like as the default.

Like others, I tried to move to a machine to "hpsusb" and didn't find it
so turn-key.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)