On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:55, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:52:12PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> 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. > > What is lacking in sysfs? Here's a script from Randy Dunlap that pretty > much provides the equilivant. If that format is really useful, or people are just used to reading it, maybe lsusb can be made to print the same format. Thanks, Kay -- 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
