[haiku-development] Re: Proposal to add the USBKit to the DeviceKit

  • From: "Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:49:50 -0400

With a small compat lib that just thunks the calls it'd work nicely, i imagine.

On 4/6/08, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am 06.04.2008 um 22:22 schrieb Michael Lotz:
> > the USBKit [...] is currently placed in a separate static
> > library under "src/libs/usb" and "headers/libs/usb" [...]
> > Obviously the USBKit is not really large and would not deserve
> > its own kit, but it would in fact perfectly fit into libdevice. So I
> > propose to integrate the USBKit into libdevice and make its API
> > public.
> > There are a few applications already that used the old Be provided
> > USBKit library (which our usb_raw is binary compatible with BTW) and
> > to
> > further the creation of such userland USB applications and drivers it
> > would only make sense to have this as a public API.
>
> Wouldn't moving it to another library break said binary compatibility?
>
> Andreas
>
>


-- 

- DH

Other related posts: