linux-kernel - Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:17:28 +0100
From:	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 13:11 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:

> commit cc71329b3b89b4a5be849b617f2c4f151f0b9213 moved USB_DEVICEFS to
> be embedded and marked it as depreciated. Can this be reverted? This
> breaks vmware and those systems not using udev.
> 
vmware should have been updated to use /dev/bus/usb a long time ago.

I believe that the old devices file is available under debugfs now, if
you need it.

Scott
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