Interesting. That's why I didn't say anything earlier. Supposedly you could use some symlinks to get around the lack of a /proc/bus/usb, but we could never get that working.
Launchpad bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/488274 Favux On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Eduard Hasenleithner <ehase...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/3/23 Favux ... <favux...@gmail.com>: >> usbfs was deprecated in kernel 2.6.31 I think. Certainly by 2.6.32 >> Ubuntu (Lucid 10.04) and several other distributions dropped it. This >> all happened at about the same time. There was some conflict with >> changes in udev. Apparently since usbfs implicitly changes event >> behavior it was breaking the newer udev. Hence Christoph Karg's >> userland OLED app. (he just posted an update in linuxwacom-devel) and >> San's modifications of it for profiles and other stuff. > > Very strange. I'm developing the xsetwacom led extensions on my Lucid > (kernel 2.6.32) install. And it works like a charm. Maybe there is > some misunderstanding about "dropped usbfs". In fact, usbfs was > dropped in the sense, that it is no longer possible to mount it on > /proc/bus/usb. Nevertheless, the functionality is still available > using /dev/bus/usb. > > br, > Eduard > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
