On Tue, 2 May 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> > The question it begs is can we rely on the usbdevfs being mounted?
>
> Yes, because quite some other tools also depend on usbdevfs.
Hrm... if we (the USB Devel group) are going to say this, then perhaps we
should look at some type of self-mounting system for usbdevfs, ala the way
devfs mounts itself at boot time.
Or are we going to insist that users mount it themselves when the load the
module? Actually, this is one of the reasons I asked about separating
usbdevfs from other parts of the core a while back... I was thinking that
perhaps we could leave usbdevfs in the kernel always, so we could leave it
mounted, even when we didn't have any usb devices (or even an HCD). The
idea being that we could leave as much of the usb code as modules as
possible but still guarantee that /proc/bus/usb/ was still full.
Matt Dharm
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