Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755853Ab2F2DgE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:36:04 -0400 Received: from gherkin.frus.com ([192.158.254.49]:39601 "EHLO gherkin.frus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753960Ab2F2DgB (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:36:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:36:00 -0500 From: Bob Tracy To: Ming Lei Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3.5-rcX: USB support without udev? Message-ID: <20120629033600.GA3591@gherkin.frus.com> References: <20120628131651.GA14492@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 26 On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:39:45PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > > With the removal of the deprecated usbfs feature in the 3.5 release > > candidates, is there a way of getting USB devices working on a non- > > embedded Linux system without udev (static "/dev")? > > Please try to enable below options: > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > > and you need not the static dev nodes with devtmpfs. It was worth a try, but it didn't help in my situation. This system also has an updated Kubuntu partition available to boot, so I'll try that and take lots of notes as far as what devices "udev" creates. That approach was good enough to get my sound card working, which would otherwise have required "udev". Thanks. --Bob -- 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/