Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:06:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS |
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This option has been deprecated for many years now, and no userspace > tools use it anymore, so it should be safe to finally remove it. > > Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > --- > Anyone object to me queuing this up for the 3.5 kernel release?
I'm not sure about this. There are a few systems still floating around that don't use udev; on those systems /proc/bus/usb is the only way for user programs to control USB devices. Admittedly, I have no idea whether any such systems will be using 3.5 or later kernels...
Alan Stern
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