Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure

Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:56:23 +1000


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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:49, Greg KH wrote:
> The main reason is this information is no longer available to the USB
> core. It isn't keeping a list of registered drivers anymore, only the
> driver core is. So there's no way that usbfs can get to that
> information. As the info is available in driverfs, duplication of it in
> usbfs would be bloat.
This doesn't follow. driverfs != driver core, just as usbfs != USB core.

I wasn't joking about putting back the /proc/bus/usb/drivers file. This is
really going to hurt us in 2.6.

Brad

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