Re: 2.6.31-rc0-git: lsusb stopped working?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 06:13:37PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> > > > > 
> > > > > On thinkpad x60. Otherwise usb seems to work, including btusb dongle.
> > > > > 
> > > > > /proc/bus/usb does not seem to exists.
> > > > 
> > > > Newer (as in the past 2 years) versions of lsusb should not need
> > > > /proc/bus/usb/
> > > > 
> > > > What version of usbutils are you using?
> > > 
> > > root@amd:/home/pavel# lsusb --version
> > > lsusb (usbutils) 0.73
> > > root@amd:/home/pavel# 
> > > 
> > > I may have done something stupid with not runing udev and linking
> > > /proc/bus/usb to /dev, instead...
> > 
> > the opensuse FACTORY tree now has a more modern version of usbutils in
> > it, which works just fine without usbfs mounted.
> 
> Well, this is heavily hacked debian :-)

Take it up with the Debian maintainers then, there are newer usbutils
packages availble somewhere...

> > > But it is not only usbutils that is broken, I first noticed breakage
> > > on android fastboot.
> > 
> > Android needs it?  That's crazy, given that they don't have any usb host
> > controllers in their devices.  Very wierd...
> 
> fastboot  runs on PC and uploads kernels to Android device(s).

Oh, that program.  That sounds like a Debian configuration issue.

good luck,

greg k-h