[OT] Re: UDEV rule for uploading firmware

[OT] Re: UDEV rule for uploading firmware

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Kay Sievers wrote:

> SUSE already disabled usbfs in the kernel, as it is no longer needed
> today and can't handle ACL's needed for multi-user setups. Other
> distros will need to do the same, when we ship a
> "pam_console"-successor along with HAL.

Does USB access from VMware products work on SUSE? If so, how?

Do you know any other packages that rely on old-style /proc/bus/usb (e.g., 
for /proc/bus/usb/devices)? How can they be taught to do the right thing?

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

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Re: [OT] Re: UDEV rule for uploading firmware

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 21:59 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > SUSE already disabled usbfs in the kernel, as it is no longer needed
> > today and can't handle ACL's needed for multi-user setups. Other
> > distros will need to do the same, when we ship a
> > "pam_console"-successor along with HAL.
> 
> Does USB access from VMware products work on SUSE? If so, how?
> 
> Do you know any other packages that rely on old-style /proc/bus/usb (e.g., 
> for /proc/bus/usb/devices)? How can they be taught to do the right thing?

Device node access is transparent through libusb, it just looks up
/dev/bus/usb before falling back to /proc/bus/usb. /proc/bus/usb/devices
is deprecated for a long time now and sysfs contains all the
needed information.

Kay


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