[kde-freebsd] [PATCH/RFC] Fixing kinfocenter's usb support upstream

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

2009/10/4 Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito at gmail.com>:
>
> Hey there,
>
> While I was building KDE trunk here today on 8.0-RC1, compilation would
> fail on kdebase/apps/kinfocenter/usbview because 8.0 has got a
> completely reworked USB stack from what I saw.
>
> I then found two patches in area51 (extra-patch-libusb20 and
> patch-apps_kinfocenter_usbview_usbdevices.h from KDE/x11/kdebase4) that
> fixed the issue in the port. After that I thought "why not push these
> upstream?".
>
> The attached patch (which must be applied using
> kdebase/apps/kinfocenter/usbview as the base directory) is what I
> intend to commit to KDE's trunk (I don't know if it should be
> backported): it basically integrates Fluffy's patches with the rest of
> the code, allowing things to compile on previous FreeBSD releases as
> well (pre-8.0).
>
> So I'd like to ask for some things here:
>
>  * Check if the patch looks OK for you;
>  * If possible, test it on a pre-8.0 system (this is important);
>  * Should it be backported to 4.3?
>  * Fluffy: I've created GPLv2+ code based on your patch and Hans Petter
>   Semalsky's; is it OK?
>
> Cheers,
> Raphael
>

I've just noticed the CMake check isn't working properly, which always
leads to crashes. Until I fix it, I'd recommend waiting ;(