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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:34:17 +0100
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On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 16:20 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> My point was to avoid the sysfs accesses in libxl in order to support
> BSD as well and to reduce the complexity.

As a slight aside to this, can't libxl use libusb for a lot of this
stuff and therefore avoid being Linux specific?

http://libusb.info/ claims to support "Linux, OS X, Windows, Windows CE,
Android, OpenBSD/NetBSD, Haiku.". Interestingly FreeBSD is missing there
but I don't think that need to be a blocker.

I don't see a problem with adding libusb to our set of dependencies, and
it's certainly got to be better than (re)implementing a bunch of sysfs
stuff (which I presume is what libusb does under the hood anyway).

Ian.