From 25c75c9e038795095611acb8b9113984054678ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:21:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 151321 b: refs/heads/master c: cc71329b3b89b4a5be849b617f2c4f151f0b9213 h: refs/heads/master i: 151319: ccd61f5c94aee6f19b60af58eabfe7b9360c3204 v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 0363405c9107..8eefe5ec0a0b 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 91f8d063d30358fcb76831c238071f7d4b13c35e +refs/heads/master: cc71329b3b89b4a5be849b617f2c4f151f0b9213 diff --git a/trunk/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/trunk/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig index e1759d17ac5d..69280c35b5cb 100644 --- a/trunk/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig +++ b/trunk/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ comment "Miscellaneous USB options" depends on USB config USB_DEVICEFS - bool "USB device filesystem" + bool "USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED)" if EMBEDDED depends on USB ---help--- If you say Y here (and to "/proc file system support" in the "File @@ -46,11 +46,15 @@ config USB_DEVICEFS For the format of the various /proc/bus/usb/ files, please read . - Usbfs files can't handle Access Control Lists (ACL), which are the - default way to grant access to USB devices for untrusted users of a - desktop system. The usbfs functionality is replaced by real - device-nodes managed by udev. These nodes live in /dev/bus/usb and - are used by libusb. + Modern Linux systems do not use this. + + Usbfs entries are files and not character devices; usbfs can't + handle Access Control Lists (ACL) which are the default way to + grant access to USB devices for untrusted users of a desktop + system. + + The usbfs functionality is replaced by real device-nodes managed by + udev. These nodes lived in /dev/bus/usb and are used by libusb. config USB_DEVICE_CLASS bool "USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED)"