Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760836AbZFWPbw (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:31:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758596AbZFWP3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:29:54 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com ([209.85.217.214]:56568 "EHLO mail-gx0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754496AbZFWP3s (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:29:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HliHEX6cxrOKVgaFe0SKVcNXIuLjBgpa7EiwzVpVmmniiG7hJpdB59uEx9Ekw3aTSN sPRRGdO+R/kZJK2It5BZEAzBvgOqE0jY0bvsBwgWjs0KNyf0RGxX+YyoM78zc9bJr2nK QBLPNNbZu9JZP4cRXYMiRtWhs1CWG1IjzlYpQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> References: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:29:50 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded? From: Jeff Chua To: Greg KH Cc: Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Scott James Remnant , Kay Sievers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 24 On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Greg KH wrote: > 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. vmware is working, but can't detect USB devices. > 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. I'm not using it and have been fine without it all these while, so don't see any gain moving to udev or perhaps it's time to consider ... Thanks, Jeff. -- 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/