Re: built-in USB /proc bug

Johannes Erdfelt (johannes@erdfelt.com)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:37:35 -0500


On Tue, Nov 20, 2001, Daniel I. Applebaum <danapple@danapple.com> wrote:
>
> I tried building a 2.4.13 kernel with USB support as built-in, instead
> of modules. The system worked, and USB devices worked, but there were
> no entries in /proc/bus/usb Yes, I had enabled both /proc filesystem
> and USB /proc filesystem support. When the same kernel was built but
> with USB support as modules, the /proc/bus/usb entries appear.
>
> Although no expert in these matters, I suspect that when the USB
> subsystem is built-in, it is initialized before /proc is mounted, and
> the USB /proc filesystem support either turns itself off or puts the
> "files" elsewhere.
>
> A viable solution might be to have make menuconfig warn against this
> combination.

The problem is likely that it's a filesystem and you need to mount it
after loading the module.

Try running:

mount /proc/bus/usb

JE

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