From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:53:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale Message-Id: <20060127035334.GB28052@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20060126094517.GA4063@bode.aurel32.net> In-Reply-To: <20060126094517.GA4063@bode.aurel32.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:38:13PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: > On 1/26/06, Kay Sievers 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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