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
next prev parent 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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