Re: Question regarding kernel 3.5 dropping support for usbfs

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:03:49AM -0400, Unknown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3.5 kernel (gentoo). A USB device
> (Midisport2x2) depends on firmware loading using fxload from a udev
> rules script. Without usbfs, can someone give me a recommendation for
> replacing the udev script to load the firmware?
> 
> At the moment, I compiled the 3.5 kernel with CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
> and can manually run /sbin/fxload using the dev path but that is not a
> desirable long-term solution.

Why is that not a long-term solution?  It's what all the other distros
switched to years ago.

If you don't want to use devtmpfs, then create the device nodes
statically, or use udev to create them.

greg k-h
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