On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:55:16PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: >> 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. > > vmware doesn't use usbfs, otherwise how would it be working on all of > the systems out there that haven't mounted usbfs for years? > > What exactly broke? What version of vmware are you using, and is the > problem in the guest or host? > > We delayed other usbfs changes for years due to vmware "issues", it > wouldn't be the first time we've had to handle this :( VMWare workstation 8.0.3 # vmware-usbarbitrator -f --info DICT product.buildNumber = 703057 DICT product.version = 8.0.3 DICT workstation.product.version = 8.0.3 DICT product.name = VMware Workstation VMware USB Arbitration Service Version 8.4.19 USB: Unable to open "/proc/bus/usb/devices" (No such file or directory). No USB enumerator! If I revert back to git pull 3 years earlier, it works. Thanks, 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
