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. Lots of it can be gathered like this script does: http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/usb-devices.sh -- ~Randy -- 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
