usbd config file parse behaviour

From: Sam Lawrance (samuel.lawrance_at_studentmail.newcastle.edu.au)
Date: 03/26/04

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:27:39 +1100

    Hi,

    usbd's present behaviour when reading usbd.conf is to scan from top to
    bottom and use the first match.

    What if it was changed to use the last, most specific match? That is,
    the last match with the most of (product, vendor) specified.

    The idea is that it makes it programmatically easy to add new entries to
    the file - just place them at the end. Presently that won't work because
    of the generic catch-all
            device "USB Device"
    in the default usbd.conf.

    I know this would be useful to me, so I'm just looking for somebody to
    say "yeah maybe".

    Cheers
    Sam.

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