From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:23:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale Message-Id: <20060127042327.GC21527@kroah.com> 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 Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:01:41AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2006 06:38, Charles Lepple wrote: > > 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. > > > > Does sysfs miss any information contained in /proc/bus/usb/devices? Yes it does, configurations that are not enabled. I need to just add a flag to 'lsusb' to provide this "condensed" information dump that the devices file provides and then we will be able to drop it successfully. Although it will be a long time before it happens, as there are some odd userspace programs out there that parse this file to get information (print drivers included...) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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