Re: future plans for USB stack

Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What are the future plans for USB in FreeBSD?
> Will usb4bsd (http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/usb4bsd/) replace the
> current usb stack in FreeBSD
> or there is another work to improve the usb stack?
> 
I believe this is planned to be the furture for the usb stack. Currently
it appears to be in perforce
http://perforce.freebsd.org/branchView.cgi?BRANCH=usb

no idea if theres a patch set or tarball for the general public, but its
being activley worked on. the freebsd-usb list might be a better place
to ask.

Vince

> I have the problem described here:
> http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-current/200706/msg00423.html
> and the solution in this thread works for me too, but if someone is
> interested in fixing this in freebsd's usb stack
> I'll be happy to test patches and help debugging.
> 
> The only problem so far with usb4bsd is that I can't compile
> sysutils/hal anymore:
> 
> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..
> -DPACKAGE_SYSCONF_DIR=\"/usr/local/etc\"
> -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/local/share\"
> -DPACKAGE_BIN_DIR=\"/usr/local/bin\"
> -DPACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
> -DPACKAGE_LOCALSTATEDIR=\"/usr/local/var\" -I../.. -I..
> -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0/include
> -I/usr/local/include/libpolkit -I/usr/local/include -O2
> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=prescott -Wall -Wchar-subscripts
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
> -Wsign-compare -MT hf-usb.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/hf-usb.Tpo -c hf-usb.c 
> -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/hf-usb.o
> hf-usb.c:600: warning: 'struct usb_event' declared inside parameter list
> hf-usb.c:600: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration,
> which is probably not what you want
> hf-usb.c: In function 'hf_usb_process_event':
> hf-usb.c:604: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:606: error: 'USB_EVENT_CTRLR_ATTACH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> hf-usb.c:606: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> hf-usb.c:606: error: for each function it appears in.)
> hf-usb.c:607: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:612: error: 'USB_EVENT_CTRLR_DETACH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> hf-usb.c:613: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:618: error: 'USB_EVENT_DEVICE_ATTACH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> hf-usb.c:622: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:622: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:625: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:630: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:632: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:637: error: 'USB_EVENT_DEVICE_DETACH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> hf-usb.c:641: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:641: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:645: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:646: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c:661: error: 'USB_EVENT_DRIVER_ATTACH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> hf-usb.c:665: error: 'USB_EVENT_DRIVER_DETACH' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> hf-usb.c:670: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> hf-usb.c: In function 'hf_usb_event_cb':
> hf-usb.c:678: error: storage size of 'event' isn't known
> hf-usb.c:678: warning: unused variable 'event'
> gmake[5]: *** [hf-usb.lo] Error 1
> gmake[5]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20071224/hald/freebsd'
> gmake[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20071224/hald/freebsd'
> gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20071224/hald'
> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20071224/hald'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20071224'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
>