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SubjectRe: USB device allocation
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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