do not use udev, was: Re: [sane-devel] sane problem with newer kernel

Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org
Sun Jul 30 19:26:56 UTC 2006


"m. allan noah" <anoah at pfeiffer.edu> wrote:

> platforms where libusb is available, sane will also ask libusb for a
> list. most versions of libusb discover usb devices by looking in
> /proc/bus/usb
> later versions of the kernel seem to have moved or messed with that
> location.

FYI, since Linux 2.6.14, /dev/bus/usb is the preferred location, and
/proc/bus/usb will disappear at some point in time.

JB.

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