On Tue, May 15, 2001, W. Michael Petullo <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there any plans to unify devfs and the usbdevfs? Devfs and devfsd
> seem to be positioned well to handle dynamic buses like USB. However,
> generic Linux 2.4 user-land USB access is currently performed using
> usbdevfs, (like devfs), usb_permd (like devfsd), and libusb.
>
> I've seen a lot of discussion about hot-swap devices and Linux lately,
> though none from the devfs camp. What plans exist for supporting things
> like USB with devfs?
I wrote a patch to do just this, but it was rejected since we cannot depend
on people using devfs.
As a result, we had to reimplement much of it's functionality ourselves.
JE
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