linux-kernel - Re: no USB keyboard in 3.5-rc1 and later

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Message-ID: <20120628060456.GA2132@gherkin.frus.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:04:56 -0500
From:	Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: no USB keyboard in 3.5-rc1 and later

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:30:31PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Here's hoping it's something simple.  Attached USB devices fail to
> initialize/work for kernel version 3.5-rc1 and later (up through
> 3.5-rc4).  From what I can tell from the dmesg output (attached),
> there used to be an "input" or "generic-usb" message that appeared
> for each device following detection -- showing the sysfs path to the
> device.

The answer *was* simple: the deprecated usbfs under /proc went bye-bye
starting with 3.5-rc1.  I'm still using a static "/dev" (no "udev").
Hence, no device nodes under "/dev/bus/usb".

--Bob
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