Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:38, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

Can't you use the modules.aliases file? That should stay around and
there should be the same information contained.

Kay
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