Re: [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale

[Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:08:11PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > I want to understand the reason for these device nodes since they seem
> > to duplicate the nodes found in /proc/bus/usb. Is this just part of the
> > long term plans to remove usbdevfs?
> 
> Yes, we want to leave /proc with all stuff that isn't process related.
> And as all the major distros depend on udev and have /dev on tmpfs, having
> usb devices in /proc makes no sense anymore.
> 
> We also want the option to apply access control lists to device nodes,
> to allow a set of users (fast-user-switching) access to a device and
> this would not work with /proc files, which can only have primary
> ownership.

Ahh, sounds great. I've checked in the change to CVS. It will only check
/dev/bus/usb and /proc/bus/usb now, in that order.

I haven't seen any of the conversations about this, but what will happen
to /proc/bus/usb/devices?

Unrelated, but I may make a 0.1.12 release sometime soon because there
have been a surprising amount of changes since 0.1.11 was released.

JE



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