Re: IDE controller detection 2.4 +devfs

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:56:20AM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:58:55 -0800
> Greg KH <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> > USBfs?  What's that?  I don't see that in the kernel, yet :)
> 
> Hu? 2.4.x:
> 
> USB support  ---> Preliminary USB device filesystem
> 
> ??? !!! - It is normally mounted to /proc/bus/usb ...

Ah, that's "usbdevfs".  But people keep thinking that it has something
to do with "devfs" so I want to rename it to "usbfs".  It will not be
until 2.7 that the old name can go away.

> (But it is not that great (except it works for using a Canon IXUS
> digital camera via gphoto2 ... - but controlling the permissions
> really sucks (or I do not know how to do this correctly ... ?)

It's a load time option when you load the usbcore module.

thanks,

greg k-h