/sys/bus/usb/devices vs. /proc/bus/usb/devices ....

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom London (selinux at gmail.com) said: 
> Sigh.  vmware can no longer scan for USB devices.
> 
> I've tried passing in the 'new location' (i.e. /sys/bus/usb), etc.,
> but that crashes vmware.
> 
> vmware appears not to like /dev/bus/usb (it is looking for a 'devices'
> directory).

So, it's attempting to read the old 2.4-ish /proc/bus/usb/devices
file, when it really should be scanning sysfs (or using HAL, or similar.)

What specifically is it looking for usb devices for?

Bill