arright let's check out this libusb thing i've seemed unable to address for 2 days.

one of the issues is that there are a lot of paths forweard and I keep switching between them, always deciding a different one is better, never making progress.

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one solution to having many approaches is to make a different worktree for every approach.

`git worktree` lets you make different worktrees inside the same git repository.

another solution is to pick one for a nonrelated reason such as being the first one, and stick to it hard.

i'll probably try the worktree one here, unfortunately.

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I have some existing code open that is an offhand rebase of my code onto the new main tree.  it has 2-3 prominant bugs, one of them kind of confusing.

what it comes down to, is that i'm not sure how to initialize the javavm pointer in the new setup, and here writing seems like it could be pretty helpful.

the android javavm pointer is passed in by the user right now, as a libusb option.

1323 and i'm having chest contractions

the issue is: the pre-init options are now passed to the backend twice.  once when the user sets them.  and now a second time before the backend is initialised.  this lets the library manage defaults in some way.

i'm going to review the code that passes them on the first time.  after writing it to this list, the first time seems kind of unnecessary.

1328 I have a "master" worktree already. 

oops.  I jostled my phone cable because the phone wasn't charging.  it is now charging but my usb hub developed an issue and my raid array disconnected.

looks like only one disk possibly went down

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1330 mdadm is misbehaving, but my libusb code is not on the raid array, so i'll ignore the issue for now

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I found the libusb call I want to inspect.  my arms try to move away from the system, so I dissociate and find a way to at least get them near, then dissociate again to do the task with them.

it looks to me like this redundant call could be removed to retain the same functionality.  if i'm going to try that out, I'd likely want to test the changes.  the guy who did the fix contributed a test app in a different repository.

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