On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:30:33PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > 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. Yeah, that's on my long-term list, but once Randy wrote the bash script, it moved way down in priority. But if anyone else wants to do that, I think it would be great to have. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
