Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759728AbZFWOqv (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:46:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753667AbZFWOqo (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:46:44 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46442 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751676AbZFWOqo (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:46:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:42:21 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Chua Cc: Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Scott James Remnant , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded? Message-ID: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 20 On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:11:51PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > commit cc71329b3b89b4a5be849b617f2c4f151f0b9213 moved USB_DEVICEFS to > be embedded and marked it as depreciated. Can this be reverted? This > breaks vmware and those systems not using udev. vmware now works properly with this fix, and has for over a year or so. What distro does not use udev or mdev or something like it already and also does not use an updated libusb? We need some specifics here please. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/