Re: [linux-usb] Re: Using usbdevfs

[David Brownell]

> However, many userland tools already parse ASCII files in /proc.
> 
> Roughly every half year someone on l-k notices this and finds it ugly.
> He comes up with a replacement idea. That idea then soon becomes
> worse than the problem it tried to solve, at which point Linus refuses
> it to get into the kernel.

Well, the usbdevfs ioctls are already there, so there's no
risk of that scenario happening.

I sure remember the last conclusion being that parsing the
devices file was an anti-goal.

- Dave





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