Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

>>I wasn't joking about putting back the /proc/bus/usb/drivers file. This is 
>>really going to hurt us in 2.6. 

Considering that the main use of that file that I know about was
implicit (usbfs is available if its files are present, another
assumption broken in 2.5), I'm not sure I feel any pain... :-)


> Is this file _really_ used?  All it did was show the USB drivers
> registered.  Even so, that same information is now present in driverfs,
> I haven't taken away anything, just moved it.  Lots of things are
> starting to move to driverfs, this isn't the first, and will not be the
> last.

Actually it does more than that ... it tells you what minor numbers
are assigned to the drivers _currently loaded_ which means that it's
not really useful the instant someone plugs in another device.

You can't use it to allocate numbers or tell what /dev/file/name matches
a given device ... so what is its value, other than providing a limited
minor number counterpart to /proc/devices?  (Which, confusingly, doesn't
list devices but major numbers.)

- Dave