Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760295AbZFWPnt (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:43:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754657AbZFWPnm (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:43:42 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48897 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753653AbZFWPnl (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:43:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:39:28 -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: <20090623153928.GA32604@suse.de> References: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> 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: 1346 Lines: 32 On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:29:50PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > 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. Odd, what version of vmware are you using? > > 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 ... If you are running your own custom distro/install, then you should be able to select CONFIG_EMBEDDED and then USB_DEVICEFS just fine on your own. But note, that you don't sound like the "normal" user at all :) 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/