From fb28d58b72aa9215b26f1d5478462af394a4d253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:15:29 -0700 Subject: USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS This option has been deprecated for many years now, and no userspace tools use it anymore, so it should be safe to finally remove it. Reported-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | 29 ----------------------------- 1 file changed, 29 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig index 18d02e32a3d5..751031e8d8d2 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig @@ -27,35 +27,6 @@ config USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES comment "Miscellaneous USB options" depends on USB -config USB_DEVICEFS - bool "USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED)" - depends on USB - ---help--- - If you say Y here (and to "/proc file system support" in the "File - systems" section, above), you will get a file /proc/bus/usb/devices - which lists the devices currently connected to your USB bus or - busses, and for every connected device a file named - "/proc/bus/usb/xxx/yyy", where xxx is the bus number and yyy the - device number; the latter files can be used by user space programs - to talk directly to the device. These files are "virtual", meaning - they are generated on the fly and not stored on the hard drive. - - You may need to mount the usbfs file system to see the files, use - mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb - - For the format of the various /proc/bus/usb/ files, please read - . - - 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)" depends on USB -- cgit v1.2.3