On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:37:57AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > Hi, > > oh, shiny new device files. but why? /proc/bus/usb/00X/00Y > works fine for me. why the changes?
Because udev can control the permissions of these device nodes properly, while usbfs had a file-system-wide granularity for permissions. > will usbfs alias /proc/bus/usb be obsoleted? It's been considered that /proc/bus/usb be obsoleted, and some distros have not mounted it at all as the device nodes provide the same interface (and are still really usbfs underneath.) > also are there any differences between those two files? > or are they exchangeable? They are the same. > also what about the hotplug interface and udev? > I hope I can still count on $DEVICE being the > /proc/bus/usb/ device when my hotplug script > is being called? Yes. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
