Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 14:30, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:17:12PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> find being able to run `usbmodules` pretty useful ... i wrote a script
>> >> for fun:
>> >> http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/usbutils/files/usbmodules.sh
>> >
>> > Did that work on any 2.6 kernel?
>>
>> it's the only version ive tested it with ... but it doesnt parse any
>> kernel module directly, it reads the generated modules.usbmap file
>>
>> > There's no reason we can't add "-k" support to lsusb like lspci has to
>> > show the modules assigned to different devices.
>>
>> the method i posted above only needs the module to be compiled, not loaded
>
> As the map files are depreciated, I wouldn't continue to rely on it, it
> will break in the future when the kernel stops generating those files.

guess i'll have to rewrite it to parse the .ko modules directly like
the usbmap is generated now
-mike
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