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From: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure
Date: 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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