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From: James Lamanna <jamesl@appliedminds.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Figuring out USB device locations
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:33:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40637A42.4080603@appliedminds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325235740.GA30964@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:20:47AM -0800, James Lamanna wrote:
> 
>>Is there an easy way to find out what /dev entries usb devices get 
>>mapped to from userspace?
> 
> 
> "easy way" on 2.4?  No, sorry.  You need 2.6 to determine this in a
> simple manner.  But there are some files in the /proc/bus/usb/
> and /proc/bus/input/ directories that will help you out.

Hmm...its not obvious to me how i can use /proc/bus/usb/xxx/yyy to get 
the /dev entry information. I can get the USB device number, but I don't 
see how to get at a mapping to a major/minor in /dev space (or is this 
not possible in 2.4)...

-- 
James Lamanna

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-26  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-25 17:20 Figuring out USB device locations James Lamanna
2004-03-25 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-03-26  0:33   ` James Lamanna [this message]
2004-03-26  0:41     ` Greg KH

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