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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:05:06AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Friday 27 January 2006 05:25, Greg KH 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?
> >
> > They duplicate those nodes identically.  But now we can use udev and pam
> > and other tools to properly set the permissions and acls on the nodes.
> > Much easier than doing it through usbfs mount permissions, which only
> > work for all usbfs devices.
> >
> 
> Does Mandrake have patched kernel procfs?
> 
> {pts/1}% LC_ALL=C ll /proc/bus/usb/001

/proc/bus/usb is not procfs, it's usbfs mounted at that location.

Hope this helps explain things.

greg k-h


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