From: Johannes E. <joh...@er...> - 2006-01-27 19:30:03
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006, Kay Sievers <kay...@vr...> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:38:13PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: > > Is there a plan for a successor to /proc/bus/usb/devices (that file > > itself, not the /proc/bus/usb/012/345 nodes)? > > > > If I am not mistaken, the 'devices' file allows ordinary users to > > fetch the manufacturer, product and serial strings - without needing > > to open the individual device nodes in read-write mode, and issue > > requests to fetch those particular string descriptors. > > These informations are all available in sysfs. In libusb 1.0, we open /proc/bus/usb/devices and poll on the fd to get informed when the bus state changes (device plugged in or disconnected). Is there a replacement in sysfs? JE |