From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:52:15 +0000 Subject: Re: udev/ubuntu problem solved Message-Id: <1184230335.10350.11.camel@wing-commander> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0726607183==" List-Id: References: <200707101653.31621.aj@dungeon.inka.de> In-Reply-To: <200707101653.31621.aj@dungeon.inka.de> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --===============0726607183== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-clhRO311Dcynvu6/+mij" --=-clhRO311Dcynvu6/+mij Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:34:31AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 17:39 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >=20 > > > On 7/10/07, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > > > I finally figured out what is wrong with udev on ubuntu. > > > > > > > > ubuntu mounts usbfs as /proc/bus/usb/.usbfs > > > > and has udev create /dev/bus/usb and bind-mounts that as /proc/bus/= usb. > > >=20 > > > What are theses guys smoking? That's so sick to bind-mount > > > /dev-directories to /proc! I wouldn't support such a system at all. I= t > > > is totally broken. > > >=20 > > It works > >=20 > > What we do is mount the usbfs filesystem on /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs, and > > symlink the devices file from that into the parent directory (so > > that /dev/bus/usb/devices exists). > >=20 > > The whole lot is then bind-mounted to /proc/bus/usb; so an application > > using /proc/bus/usb sees the same tree as a fixed one. > >=20 > > We would fix the apps, but unfortunately we don't have the source to > > VMware! >=20 > vmware originally said they would fix their program up to handle this > properly. Unfortunatly, they seem to have forgotten this and do not > seem to be willing to do this, especially when distros do looney things > like this to apease them :) >=20 VMware appears to work on my laptop here, which is running the development version of Ubuntu (which lacks the /proc/bus/usb hack). Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager scott@ubuntu.com --=-clhRO311Dcynvu6/+mij Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGleu/SnQiFMl4yK4RAiMSAJ9qXjsPJzfgCfidhQgEXU3AtsgRDwCfRjcf UXnpmJ8PmCWwA/N1PXRMrd8= =dqy1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-clhRO311Dcynvu6/+mij-- --===============0726607183== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ --===============0726607183== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel --===============0726607183==--