Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:13:37 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc0-git: lsusb stopped working?
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Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > On thinkpad x60. Otherwise usb seems to work, including btusb dongle.
> > > > 
> > > > /proc/bus/usb does not seem to exists.
> > > 
> > > Newer (as in the past 2 years) versions of lsusb should not need
> > > /proc/bus/usb/
> > > 
> > > What version of usbutils are you using?
> > 
> > root@amd:/home/pavel# lsusb --version
> > lsusb (usbutils) 0.73
> > root@amd:/home/pavel# 
> > 
> > I may have done something stupid with not runing udev and linking
> > /proc/bus/usb to /dev, instead...
> 
> the opensuse FACTORY tree now has a more modern version of usbutils in
> it, which works just fine without usbfs mounted.

Well, this is heavily hacked debian :-)

> > But it is not only usbutils that is broken, I first noticed breakage
> > on android fastboot.
> 
> Android needs it?  That's crazy, given that they don't have any usb host
> controllers in their devices.  Very wierd...

fastboot  runs on PC and uploads kernels to Android device(s).

> Anyway, this change is going to be reverted, it is already queued up to
> go to Linus early next week.  Just need to test some other pending
> patches as well.

Thanks!
									Pavel

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