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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.5-rcX: USB support without udev?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:35:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120630033519.GA4792@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120629033600.GA3591@gherkin.frus.com>

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:36:00PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:39:45PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> wrote:
> > > With the removal of the deprecated usbfs feature in the 3.5 release
> > > candidates, is there a way of getting USB devices working on a non-
> > > embedded Linux system without udev (static "/dev")?
> > 
> > Please try to enable below options:
> > 
> > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
> > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
> > 
> > and you need not the static dev nodes with devtmpfs.
> 
> It was worth a try, but it didn't help in my situation.

Why not?  What is using usbfs device nodes that can not find them in
/dev/bus/usb/ that devtmpfs creates?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-30  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-28 13:16 3.5-rcX: USB support without udev? Bob Tracy
2012-06-28 13:39 ` Ming Lei
2012-06-29  3:36   ` Bob Tracy
2012-06-30  3:35     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-07-01 20:14       ` Bob Tracy
2012-07-01 20:16         ` Bob Tracy
2012-07-01 20:34         ` Romain Francoise
2012-07-01 20:58           ` Romain Francoise
2012-07-01 20:41         ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-07-01 23:25           ` Bob Tracy
2012-07-02  0:29             ` Bob Tracy
2012-07-02  5:52               ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-07-02 13:07                 ` Bob Tracy

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