mdev and /dev/bus/usb

Alon Bar-Lev alon.barlev at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 08:57:40 UTC 2008


Anyone...
How can I make /deb/bus/usb available using mdev?

Thanks!

On Friday 03 October 2008, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I had to add ugly hack to create /dev/bus/usb devices (major 189) using mdev.
> 
> After reading bug#1329 [1], I thought I will be able to do it without any hack, but I cannot understand if this is supported. I tried latest snapshot.
> 
> A fix for this was posted in the mailing list [2], explicit handling of bus/usb, but looks like I must specify all buses inside the configuration.
> 
> What I expect is that devices with major 189 will be created, I prefer they will be created at /dev/bus/usb/BUSNUM/DEVNUM, but they can be created at any other location so I can symlink them into this location.
> 
> Can this be done using latest snapshot?
> 
> Regards,
> Alon.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=1329
> [2] http://www.uclibc.org/lists/busybox/2007-May/027367.html
> 





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