Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:22:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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Nathan Hand wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 02:28:00PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote: > > Wait! Why couldn't all devices just show up dynamically? You'd only > > see the devices that were actually on the system (at that moment). Wait, > > somebody already made this work! Ye gods, the anarchy.
> Actually it seems somebody is already doing something similar to the > /proc/usb/dev idea above. The ALSA drivers do something like this (I > am pretty sure) in /proc/asound/dev.
kgi-fbcon does this also, I believe.
> Yes, it's horribly ugly, but what other option do developers have?
Indeed. /proc/xxx/dev is popping up all over the place.
Jeff
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