From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:53:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060127035334.GB28052@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060126094517.GA4063@bode.aurel32.net>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:38:13PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:26:15PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > > but what will happen to /proc/bus/usb/devices?
> >
> > It needs to be mounted to be active, so the option to use it is still there.
> > For SUSE we just leave it enabled in the kernel for now but don't mount it.
> > So users that depend on the /proc nodes, for whatever reason, can just mount
> > it and get the old behavior.
>
> Is there a plan for a successor to /proc/bus/usb/devices (that file
> itself, not the /proc/bus/usb/012/345 nodes)?
>
> If I am not mistaken, the 'devices' file allows ordinary users to
> fetch the manufacturer, product and serial strings - without needing
> to open the individual device nodes in read-write mode, and issue
> requests to fetch those particular string descriptors.
These informations are all available in sysfs.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-27 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-26 9:45 [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale Aurelien Jarno
2006-01-26 10:16 ` Linus Walleij
2006-01-27 2:08 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2006-01-27 2:17 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 2:25 ` Greg KH
2006-01-27 2:26 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2006-01-27 3:01 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 3:17 ` Greg KH
2006-01-27 3:38 ` Charles Lepple
2006-01-27 3:51 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 3:53 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2006-01-27 4:01 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-01-27 4:05 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-01-27 4:11 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 4:20 ` Greg KH
2006-01-27 4:21 ` Greg KH
2006-01-27 4:23 ` Greg KH
2006-01-27 7:50 ` Linus Walleij
2006-01-27 11:56 ` Olivier Blin
2006-01-27 17:04 ` David Zeuthen
2006-01-27 17:15 ` Olivier Blin
2006-01-27 17:28 ` Darren Salt
2006-01-27 17:33 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-01-27 19:29 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2006-01-27 19:39 ` Linus Walleij
2006-01-27 19:44 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2006-01-27 20:45 ` Greg KH
2006-01-28 0:12 ` Greg KH
2006-02-06 23:29 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2006-02-06 23:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-07 0:00 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2006-02-07 0:23 ` Greg KH
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