On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:24:04PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > So, I'm writing the libusb people so that they are aware > of the problem and can make the necessary changes > when they decide to release a new API.
> I don't really have any questions, except perhaps whether the > designers consider this a feature rather than a design flaw > and never plan to fix it. These two kind of go together. libusb 0.1 wasn't designed all that much. I see it more as a test version - which became quite widely used where it did the job well enough. > I may have mis-understood and so be contacting the wrong people. > If so I apologize. Nah, I for one appreciate your input. > I think the work-around is to always run lsusb as root. Yep. > A corollary would be to document the problem in the lsusb > man page. Can you help with this? Maybe talk to the usbutils people? Best case send them a patch for the man page. //Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]