From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:11:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020920231112.GC24813@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D8B884A.7030205@pacbell.net>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 01:42:50PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
>
> Actually it does more than that ... it tells you what minor numbers
> are assigned to the drivers _currently loaded_ which means that it's
> not really useful the instant someone plugs in another device.
Wait, I'm confused, which one is "it"? The old /proc/bus/usb/drivers
file, or the new driverfs stuff?
> You can't use it to allocate numbers or tell what /dev/file/name matches
> a given device ... so what is its value, other than providing a limited
> minor number counterpart to /proc/devices? (Which, confusingly, doesn't
> list devices but major numbers.)
I'm working on adding the minor number info to the usb driverfs code
right now, so that info will be available.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-20 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 7:50 2.5.26 hotplug failure Duncan Sands
2002-07-18 18:36 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 19:07 ` Duncan Sands
2002-09-15 21:53 ` Duncan Sands
2002-09-18 6:52 ` Greg KH
2002-09-18 7:15 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Brad Hards
2002-09-18 16:55 ` Greg KH
2002-09-19 7:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19 7:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19 7:48 ` Greg KH
2002-09-19 7:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19 16:49 ` Greg KH
2002-09-19 20:56 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-19 23:06 ` Greg KH
2002-09-20 20:42 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2002-09-20 23:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-09-21 2:55 ` David Brownell
2002-09-21 3:31 ` Greg KH
2002-09-21 3:58 ` David Brownell
2002-09-21 5:48 ` Greg KH
2002-09-22 1:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-24 18:26 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-24 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-24 19:29 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24 22:37 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-20 23:22 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-20 23:36 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2002-09-21 0:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-21 0:25 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-21 2:36 ` David Brownell
2002-09-20 23:46 ` Patrick Mochel
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