On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:26:05PM +0200, Michael Thayer wrote: > At Greg's request I am forwarding this to linux-usb. I would much > appreciate if you could CC me on any answers! I think Alan answered most of your questions already, but... > The first is a documentation request. Since hal has been deprecated, we > are switching to using sysfs in VirtualBox to obtain certain information > about hardware on the host system. Despite all warnings, sysfs has > proved to be one of the most stable ways of getting such information for > a wide range of kernel versions (our code works fine with 2.6.5 up to at > least 2.6.31). The way that I have done things so far rather disregards > the advice in Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt; I have a feeling though > that that advice is somewhat outdated. Would it be possible to update > that file to reflect current wisdom? I don't understand, what documentation needs to be updated? And as always, patches are gladly accepted if you find changes that need to be done :) You might want to look into using libudev if you are relying on sysfs device usages, it is future-proofed a lot for some of the changes that will be happening to the sysfs layout in the next few years. 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
