Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:11:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure |
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 21, 2002, Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au> wrote: | > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | > Hash: SHA1 | > | > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 06:42, David Brownell wrote: | > > >>I wasn't joking about putting back the /proc/bus/usb/drivers file. This | > > >> is really going to hurt us in 2.6. | > > | > > Considering that the main use of that file that I know about was | > > implicit (usbfs is available if its files are present, another | > > assumption broken in 2.5), I'm not sure I feel any pain... :-) | > | > OK. Everytime someone goes "I've got usbfs loaded, and here is | > /proc/bus/usb/devices, but can't send you /proc/bus/usb/drivers", I'll assume | > that you two will answer the question. | > | > Helping people is hard. Please don't make it harder. :-( | | Personally, I've never used /proc/bus/usb/drivers. I've always just | looked at lsmod. | | Why should this be any different?
The only case I know of that's it been useful is to see why some USB driver failed registration -- because it's minor number(s) were already assigned/registered. That won't happen with just kernel.org stock drivers etc., of course.
-- ~Randy
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