From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ziegler@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: IDE controller detection 2.4 +devfs
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:16:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011130001640.D9596@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011130001138.78ab1242.rene.rebe@gmx.net> <200111300017.fAU0Hx704241@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <20011130012752.0fd5380a.rene.rebe@gmx.net> <20011129215855.C8914@kroah.com> <20011130085620.24abaf84.rene.rebe@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011130085620.24abaf84.rene.rebe@gmx.net>
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:56:20AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:58:55 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > USBfs? What's that? I don't see that in the kernel, yet :)
>
> Hu? 2.4.x:
>
> USB support ---> Preliminary USB device filesystem
>
> ??? !!! - It is normally mounted to /proc/bus/usb ...
Ah, that's "usbdevfs". But people keep thinking that it has something
to do with "devfs" so I want to rename it to "usbfs". It will not be
until 2.7 that the old name can go away.
> (But it is not that great (except it works for using a Canon IXUS
> digital camera via gphoto2 ... - but controlling the permissions
> really sucks (or I do not know how to do this correctly ... ?)
It's a load time option when you load the usbcore module.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-30 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-29 23:11 IDE controller detection 2.4 +devfs Rene Rebe
2001-11-30 0:17 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-30 0:27 ` Rene Rebe
2001-11-30 0:34 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-30 0:55 ` Rene Rebe
2001-11-30 1:11 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-30 1:26 ` Rene Rebe
2001-11-30 2:10 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-05 0:07 ` Rene Rebe
2001-11-30 5:58 ` Greg KH
2001-11-30 7:56 ` Rene Rebe
2001-11-30 8:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
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