Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 06/17/2015 01:34 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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).
+1


Juergen


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