Re: [Libusb-devel] libusb-1.0 doesn't find usb devices

[Peter S. <pe...@st...>]

Hi,

Alan Stern wrote:
> > > Why it is that libusb-1.0 can't find these files
> > 
> > The default mount point (and name) for usbfs has changed over time.
> 
> This is not true.  The default mount point has always been
> /proc/bus/usb.  Some distributions may choose to mount a usbfs
> filesystem somewhere else; that's their business.  If they do then
> they should make the corresponding changes to the version of libusb
> they distribute.

Yep. I was thinking about how the device nodes are created in
/dev/bus/usb/ by udev these days, and confused that with usbfs.
Thanks for clearing it up. (The major difference is that usbfs has a
devices file with info about all devices, and /dev/bus/usb does not.)


> The name change part _is_ true -- usbfs used to be called
> usbdevfs. But that was a long time ago.

Aye.


//Peter