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CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS: USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED)

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS has multiple definitions:

USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED) found in `drivers/usb/core/Kconfig`

The configuration item CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS:

prompt: USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED)
type: bool
depends on: CONFIG_USB
defined in drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
found in Linux kernels: 2.6.31–2.6.39, 3.0–3.4

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If you say Y here (and to "/proc file system support" in the "File systems" section, above), you will get a file /proc/bus/usb/devices which lists the devices currently connected to your USB bus or busses, and for every connected device a file named "/proc/bus/usb/xxx/yyy", where xxx is the bus number and yyy the device number; the latter files can be used by user space programs to talk directly to the device. These files are "virtual", meaning they are generated on the fly and not stored on the hard drive.

You may need to mount the usbfs file system to see the files, use mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb

For the format of the various /proc/bus/usb/ files, please read Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt.

Modern Linux systems do not use this.

Usbfs entries are files and not character devices; usbfs can't handle Access Control Lists (ACL) which are the default way to grant access to USB devices for untrusted users of a desktop system.

The usbfs functionality is replaced by real device-nodes managed by udev. These nodes lived in /dev/bus/usb and are used by libusb.

USB device filesystem found in `drivers/usb/core/Kconfig`

The configuration item CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS:

prompt: USB device filesystem
type: bool
depends on: CONFIG_USB
defined in drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
found in Linux kernels: 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.30

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You may need to mount the usbfs file system to see the files, use mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb

For the format of the various /proc/bus/usb/ files, please read Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt.

Usbfs files can't handle Access Control Lists (ACL), which are the default way to grant access to USB devices for untrusted users of a desktop system. The usbfs functionality is replaced by real device-nodes managed by udev. These nodes live in /dev/bus/usb and are used by libusb.