Re: How to assign a device to the companion

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Alan Stern <stern@...> writes:

> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> 
> > On 12/17/2010 07:42 AM, Alan Stern wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway, you can force individual root-hub ports to be dedicated to the
> > > companion controller by using sysfs.  For example, let's say you wanted
> > > port 4 on bus 1 always to run at full or low speed.  You would do it
> > > by:
> > >
> > > 	# echo 4>/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/../companion
> > 
> > Ok the problem is that in earlier versions of the kernel this was 
> > something like:
> > 
> > /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostXXX/companion
> 



Hi, very silly question. What is exacly the meaning of double dot in the path 
here

# echo 4>/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/../companion

I used to treat .. as a parent directory but here it does not have sense for 
me, but I'm rather newcomer in linux ...






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