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

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 20 August 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hm, there's got to be a patch in the suse tree that fixed this up, I'll
> try to find it.
> 
> > Was there actually a need to change /proc/bus/usb and thus
> > start breaking things?
> 
> Yes, /proc/bus/usb can not handle a per-device-node permission setting,
> like a "normal" /dev can.

I don't follow.  Switching the mount point for usbfs can't possibly
change how it records permissions and ownership.

But switching the mount point, and installing a ratsnest of cross
links and hidden mounts, *does* break some programs and also makes
it a PITA to do things like restart USB from scratch.

- Dave

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