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Credits for the Simple Linux USB Driver:
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The following people have contributed to this code (in alphabetical
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order by last name). I'm sure this list should be longer, its
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difficult to maintain, add yourself with a patch if desired.
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Georg Acher
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David Brownell
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Alan Cox
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Randy Dunlap
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Johannes Erdfelt
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Deti Fliegl
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Bradley M Keryan
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Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Pavel Machek
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Paul Mackerras
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Petko Manlolov
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David E. Nelson
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Vojtech Pavlik
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Bill Ryder
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Thomas Sailer
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Gregory P. Smith
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Linus Torvalds
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Roman Weissgaerber
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Special thanks to:
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Inaky Perez Gonzalez for starting the
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Linux USB driver effort and writing much of the larger uusbd driver.
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Much has been learned from that effort.
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The NetBSD & FreeBSD USB developers. For being on the Linux USB list
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and offering suggestions and sharing implementation experiences.
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Additional thanks to the following companies and people for donations
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of hardware, support, time and development (this is from the original
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THANKS file in Inaky's driver):
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The following corporations have helped us in the development
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of Linux USB / UUSBD:
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- 3Com GmbH for donating a ISDN Pro TA and supporting me
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in technical questions and with test equipment. I'd never
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expect such a great help.
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- USAR Systems provided us with one of their excellent USB
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Evaluation Kits. It allows us to test the Linux-USB driver
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for compliance with the latest USB specification. USAR
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Systems recognized the importance of an up-to-date open
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Operating System and supports this project with
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Hardware. Thanks!.
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- Thanks to Intel Corporation for their precious help.
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- We teamed up with Cherry to make Linux the first OS with
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built-in USB support. Cherry is one of the biggest keyboard
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makers in the world.
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- CMD Technology, Inc. sponsored us kindly donating a CSA-6700
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PCI-to-USB Controller Board to test the OHCI implementation.
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- Due to their support to us, Keytronic can be sure that they
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will sell keyboards to some of the 3 million (at least)
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Linux users.
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- Many thanks to ing büro h doran [http://www.ibhdoran.com]!
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It was almost impossible to get a PC backplate USB connector
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for the motherboard here at Europe (mine, home-made, was
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quite lousy :). Now I know where to acquire nice USB stuff!
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- Genius Germany donated a USB mouse to test the mouse boot
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protocol. They've also donated a F-23 digital joystick and a
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NetMouse Pro. Thanks!
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- AVM GmbH Berlin is supporting the development of the Linux
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USB driver for the AVM ISDN Controller B1 USB. AVM is a
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leading manufacturer for active and passive ISDN Controllers
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and CAPI 2.0-based software. The active design of the AVM B1
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is open for all OS platforms, including Linux.
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- Thanks to Y-E Data, Inc. for donating their FlashBuster-U
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USB Floppy Disk Drive, so we could test the bulk transfer
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code.
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- Many thanks to Logitech for contributing a three axis USB
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mouse.
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Logitech designs, manufactures and markets
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Human Interface Devices, having a long history and
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experience in making devices such as keyboards, mice,
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trackballs, cameras, loudspeakers and control devices for
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gaming and professional use.
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Being a recognized vendor and seller for all these devices,
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they have donated USB mice, a joystick and a scanner, as a
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way to acknowledge the importance of Linux and to allow
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Logitech customers to enjoy support in their favorite
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operating systems and all Linux users to use Logitech and
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other USB hardware.
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Logitech is official sponsor of the Linux Conference on
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Feb. 11th 1999 in Vienna, where we'll will present the
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current state of the Linux USB effort.
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- CATC has provided means to uncover dark corners of the UHCI
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inner workings with a USB Inspector.
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- Thanks to Entrega for providing PCI to USB cards, hubs and
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converter products for development.
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- Thanks to ConnectTech for providing a WhiteHEAT usb to
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serial converter, and the documentation for the device to
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allow a driver to be written.
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- Thanks to ADMtek for providing Pegasus and Pegasus II
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evaluation boards, specs and valuable advices during
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the driver development.
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And thanks go to (hey! in no particular order :)
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- Oren Tirosh , for standing so patiently
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all my doubts'bout USB and giving lots of cool ideas.
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- Jochen Karrer , for
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pointing out mortal bugs and giving advice.
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- Edmund Humemberger , for it's great work on
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public relationships and general management stuff for the
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Linux-USB effort.
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- Alberto Menegazzi is starting the
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documentation for the UUSBD. Go for it!
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- Ric Klaren for doing nice
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introductory documents (competing with Alberto's :).
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- Christian Groessler , for it's help on those
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itchy bits ... :)
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- Paul MacKerras for polishing OHCI and pushing me harder for
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the iMac support, giving improvements and enhancements.
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- Fernando Herrera has taken
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charge of composing, maintaining and feeding the
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long-awaited, unique and marvelous UUSBD FAQ! Tadaaaa!!!
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- Rasca Gmelch has revived the raw driver and
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pointed bugs, as well as started the uusbd-utils package.
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- Peter Dettori is uncovering bugs like
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crazy, as well as making cool suggestions, great :)
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- All the Free Software and Linux community, the FSF & the GNU
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project, the MIT X consortium, the TeX people ... everyone!
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You know who you are!
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- Big thanks to Richard Stallman for creating Emacs!
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- The people at the linux-usb mailing list, for reading so
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many messages :) Ok, no more kidding; for all your advises!
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- All the people at the USB Implementors Forum for their
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help and assistance.
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- Nathan Myers , for his advice! (hope you
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liked Cibeles' party).
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- Linus Torvalds, for starting, developing and managing Linux.
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- Mike Smith, Craig Keithley, Thierry Giron and Janet Schank
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for convincing me USB Standard hubs are not that standard
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and that's good to allow for vendor specific quirks on the
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standard hub driver.
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