[BRLTTY] BRLTTY in GRUB

[J. R. Westmoreland]

I'm happy to test things when you are ready to try if you like. 

J. R.


-----Original Message-----
From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] On Behalf Of Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:42 PM
To: brltty at mielke.cc
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY in GRUB

On 15.03.2012 20:25, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko on 2012/03/15 at 20:10 +0100]
>
>> Currently with a pointer to a structure.
> Has there been no need yet to identify a USB device in, say, grub.conf?
s,grub.conf,grub.cfg (it seems you've missed an upgrade)
Mostly this code was used for usbms (there we identify by UUID anyway) 
and keyboards (we just attach all of them).
I think vendor:device would be the most convenient way if we have to.
>> Using serial number in finding is good,
> Specifying the serial number is optional. Most users don't specify it. The
> normal case is that each driver knows which vendour/product ids it supports.
>
If it's optional then it's one problem less.

>> just I'd like to prefix it with usb/ to avoid any collistion with serial.
> There's no collisiion from a brltty perspective. If the user specifies usb:
> then the device identifier is interpreted in a strictly USB context. The same
> is true for serial:. What may be confusing is that serial: is still optional
> (for backward compatibility) since only serial devices used to be supported.
> Giving just a device name (or path), therefore, is always interpreted as if
> serial: were specified. If the user wants USB, he must specify usb:.
>
> For example: If a user has a braille device which supports USB through a serial
> adapter, then he could say serial:ttyUSBn (brltty will use serial I/O through
> the virtual serial device), or he could say usb: (brltty will use direct USB
> operations).

I see now that I misread isQualifiedDevice. The issue is settled then.



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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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