X-Git-Url: http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7666a5c144fe199d862410cfe4f6696d4d2eba68;hb=0666ccc7ca446ce2960630e2707389852c812284;hp=87de434b79dd693c655e7d468e8fb5f8fa07d966;hpb=6b93ede4194fddb0a319fae9cce8bd2e8cea9982;p=libserialport.git diff --git a/README b/README index 87de434..7666a5c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ transparently on any platform supported by the library. The operations that are supported are: - Port enumeration (obtaining a list of serial ports on the system). +- Obtaining port metadata (USB device information, Bluetooth address, etc). - Opening and closing ports. - Setting port parameters (baud rate, parity, etc). - Reading, writing and flushing data. @@ -31,20 +32,10 @@ name and then used. If you know how to enumerate available ports on another OS, please submit a bug with this information, or better still a patch implementing it. -Future -====== - -Future versions will add additional API calls for obtaining metadata about a -port, e.g. for USB devices the USB VID and PID of the underlying device. - Dependencies ============ -On Linux, libudev is required. On other systems no other libraries are required. - -The libudev dependency could be eliminated in favour of direct sysfs queries at -the cost of some brevity. This is not currently a priority but if you feel like -doing this feel free to submit a patch. +No other libraries are required. Building ========