Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 17 15:56:02 UTC 2009


2009/7/17 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>:
> If not, should it be phased out?
>
> I'm referencing a use case with VirtualBox that looks for /proc/bus/usb
> by default and will use that instead of libusb for USB device access.
> This has caused issues for people wishing to use VirtualBox on Fedora in
> that they cannot use USB devices without a little tinkering. They either
> have to remove the /proc/bus/usb mount from rc.sysinit or adjust their
> fstab to allow other users access.
>
> I'll even go as far as providing a patch! *gasp*

Patch would be welcome. Would make my life easier in #fedora helping
people with that problem.

> Most of you probably don't care about VirtualBox and would rather us use
> libvirt, but some folks use different software.

A lot.

-- 
LG Thomas

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