On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Modern systems do not use usbfs; the entries within it are files, > not device nodes, and do not support ACLs which are the default way to > provide access to USB devices to untrusted users. > > It is replaced by device-nodes maintained by udev in /dev/bus/usb, > libusb uses this device nodes. > > Mark the option as deprecated, and hide entirely for non-embedded builds > (which may not be using udev but require raw USB device access). I don't like this at all. usbfs provides /proc/bus/usb/devices, and some of the information in that file is not easily available anywhere else. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
