Considering that the main use of that file that I know about was
implicit (usbfs is available if its files are present, another
assumption broken in 2.5), I'm not sure I feel any pain... :-)
> Is this file _really_ used? All it did was show the USB drivers
> registered. Even so, that same information is now present in driverfs,
> I haven't taken away anything, just moved it. Lots of things are
> starting to move to driverfs, this isn't the first, and will not be the
> last.
Actually it does more than that ... it tells you what minor numbers
are assigned to the drivers _currently loaded_ which means that it's
not really useful the instant someone plugs in another device.
You can't use it to allocate numbers or tell what /dev/file/name matches
a given device ... so what is its value, other than providing a limited
minor number counterpart to /proc/devices? (Which, confusingly, doesn't
list devices but major numbers.)
- Dave
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