device.hardware.py: Add skip_on_error flag to improve Windows experience with USB discovery #545
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If any of the USB devices attached are busy or unavailable, but libusb1 sees them, you get a nice trace on Windows:
With this patch you instead get what you expect:
This was something we have added to ChipWhisperer's USB discovery code, you can see here if useful!