On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:39:24 -0700
Jurgen Botz <jurgen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some time in the last week or so my system stopped loading
> the usb bus driver modules, uhci_hcd and ehci_hcd, at startup.
>
> In rc.sysinit, there is the following test:
>
> if ! LC_ALL=C fgrep -q "usb" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null ; then
> aliases=`/sbin/modprobe -c | awk '/^alias usb-controller/ { print
> $3 }'`
> ...
>
> Presumably the intent is that if usb already appears in
> /proc/devices, then the driver must already be loaded / or
> compiled into the kernel? Well, for whatever reason my system
> now shows a line:
>
> 180 usb
Bill, if you wish to probe, I suggest using /proc/bus/usb/devices and
check if it's present and non-empty. This should work on both 2.4 and
2.6. It needs usbcore to be loaded before it can be mounted.
-- Pete
