Re: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Karl O. Pinc a écrit :
> 
> > > lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in
> > > no output for the device to which there are no permissions.
> 
> > 
> > As already explained, lsusb does not parse /dev, but uses libusb for
> > that. If a device is not in the list given by libusb, lsusb has no way
> > to guess that a device is missing.
> 
> That's why I'm writing to (I hope) the authors of Linux's usb
> internals, so they can expose an interface libusb can use
> to come up with good error reporting.

Shouldn't you be writing to the authors of libusb instead?  The 
interface between libusb and the kernel is adequate; you're asking 
about changes to the interface between libusb and lsusb.

Alan Stern


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