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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1204261103120.1530-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:06:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This option has been deprecated for many years now, and no userspace
> tools use it anymore, so it should be safe to finally remove it.
>
> Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>
> ---
> Anyone object to me queuing this up for the 3.5 kernel release?
I'm not sure about this. There are a few systems still floating around
that don't use udev; on those systems /proc/bus/usb is the only way for
user programs to control USB devices. Admittedly, I have no idea
whether any such systems will be using 3.5 or later kernels...
Alan Stern
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