On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:06:45AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >> > This option has been deprecated for many years now, and no userspace >> > tools use it anymore, so it should be safe to finally remove it. >> > >> > Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx> >> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > Anyone object to me queuing this up for the 3.5 kernel release? >> >> I'm not sure about this. There are a few systems still floating around >> that don't use udev; on those systems /proc/bus/usb is the only way for >> user programs to control USB devices. Admittedly, I have no idea >> whether any such systems will be using 3.5 or later kernels... > > They don't have to use udev, they can use devtmpfs (which is what the > majority of embedded systems use today), or they can just use static > device nodes to get access to these devices, the char node is still > present, we aren't getting rid of them at all. Looks like vmware is breaking. Can't find any usb devices. I'm not using udev. Jeff -- 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
