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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig index e1759d17ac5d..69280c35b5cb 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ comment "Miscellaneous USB options" depends on USB config USB_DEVICEFS - bool "USB device filesystem" + bool "USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED)" if EMBEDDED depends on USB ---help--- If you say Y here (and to "/proc file system support" in the "File @@ -46,11 +46,15 @@ config USB_DEVICEFS For the format of the various /proc/bus/usb/ files, please read <file: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. + 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. config USB_DEVICE_CLASS bool "USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED)" |