Re: [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

On Friday 03 August 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> > option is for  ** /proc/bus/usb ** files ... note that despite the
> > strangeness in that text (usbfs still hasn't been "replaced", so
> > that should say "will eventually be replaced" not "is replaced"),
> > it's clear that /proc/bus/usb/ and /dev/bus/usb/ are two different
> > things.  And thus:  that Ubuntu's /dev/bus/usb/ setup is flakey.
> 
> Hm, if you look at SuSE and Fedora, they too are putting usbfs in
> /dev/bus/usb/ now, not mounting the filesystem, but using the device
> nodes for access due to ACLs for local users.
> 
> libusb works just fine with this, and I think that all other programs
> that directly access the old /proc/bus/usb mount are fixed up, with the
> exception of usbview (but I do have patches floating around for that to
> solve it.)

Nobody's submitted any patches to make "lsusb" work with
this new /dev/bus/usb/ option though.  And there are various
other programs floating around too.

Was there actually a need to change /proc/bus/usb and thus
start breaking things?

- Dave


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