On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:

| On Sat, Sep 21, 2002, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| > 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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