On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:28:58AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Greg KH a ?crit : > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:34:02PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > >> On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>> Karl O. Pinc a ?crit : > >>>> lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in > >>>> no output for the device to which there are no permissions. > >>> As already explained, lsusb does not parse /dev, but uses libusb for > >>> that. If a device is not in the list given by libusb, lsusb has no way > >>> to guess that a device is missing. > >> That's why I'm writing to (I hope) the authors of Linux's usb > >> internals, so they can expose an interface libusb can use > >> to come up with good error reporting. > > > > The internals are exposed, it's up to your distro to properly hook them > > up so that you can see them. I suggest that if your distro is somehow > > keeping you from reading from the usb device nodes in /dev/bus/usb/ that > > you take it up with them, as that differs from the "standard" that all > > of the major distros have agreed apon. > > > > It was actually the case due to a bug, but it has been fixed. Now they > are readable, but Karl wants more than that.
And my kids want a pony :) Seriously, there's nothing the kernel can do here, sorry. thanks, greg k-h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
