On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:06:27PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > This checks if the kernel is compiled with usb support, not if there is > > support for usb. > The check to see if there is support of usb is done in the next test. > This first one is just done to issue a different message if there is no > USB support in the kernel (in that case, it is sure USB won't work).
There are many machines which have no USB at all, this is missing in the test. > > This package is more or less base now so a warning that it may not work > > is just annoying for anybody. > The test was added because maintainers of packages using libusb were > receiving too much bug reports of people having either no USB support in > their kernel or /proc/bus/usb not mounted. But I could disable the error > message, after all that's not me who receive such bugs. Use README.Debian. On the other side, I have no problem with the definition that the kernel have to conflict with this lib as it clearly stats it does not work. Bastian -- The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often a noose.
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