Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751977Ab2F3Df1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:35:27 -0400 Received: from mail-gh0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:61326 "EHLO mail-gh0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751055Ab2F3Df0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:35:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:35:19 -0400 From: Greg KH To: Bob Tracy Cc: Ming Lei , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3.5-rcX: USB support without udev? Message-ID: <20120630033519.GA4792@kroah.com> References: <20120628131651.GA14492@gherkin.frus.com> <20120629033600.GA3591@gherkin.frus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120629033600.GA3591@gherkin.frus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 27 On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:36:00PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > 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. Why not? What is using usbfs device nodes that can not find them in /dev/bus/usb/ that devtmpfs creates? 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/