From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Borzenkov Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:01:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale Message-Id: <200601270701.43246.arvidjaar@mail.ru> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - -andrey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2ZsmR6LMutpd94wRAt8DAJ9b/4U+aeRYnbrlJ58oJV85o2H9vgCgwth7 3FvEOIx+M4OCp7mY04rf/Jg=m5Uo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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