Re: general hotplug/udev questions

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Kay Sievers wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:47:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>  
>
>>Like Kay said, /proc/bus/usb/???/ is now dead.  We have sane device nodes for
>>those usbfs files now that udev can manipulate the permissions for
>>properly.  Run the latest -mm trees to see this.
>>
>>Kay, you have a libusb patch to support this, right?  Care to share it?
>>    
>>
>
>It requires this crazy udev rule:
>  SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'X=%k X=$${X#usbdev} B=$${X%%%%.*} D=$${X#*.}; echo bus/usb/$$B/$$D'", SYMLINK+="%c"
>
>and this patch to libusb, that falls back to the real nodes if usbfs is
>not mounted.
>  
>
<snip patch>

With this patch, I was able to scan some images without mounting usbfs 
(linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1). Thanks!

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


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