[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 3/3] usbutil: Add support for getting strings from usb.ids

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 02/09/2012 02:53 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
>> Unfortunately not all device makers go to the "trouble" of adding
>> device
>> identification strings to a device's descriptors. This patch makes
>> spice-gtk
>> translate vid/pid into strings if the device lacks the strings.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to have this utility functions in a usb library?

Yes, I've already been talking to various libusb people about this, and
adding this function to libusb is planned, but it likely won't happen
tomorrow. So the plan is to carry these in spice-gtk for now and then
in the future when some equivalent of these lives in libusb remove
them.

Regards,

Hans