[Bug 156085] Re: Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices

[Michael]

Karri: I can see at least two ways of solving this in more recent
Ubuntus.  One is virtualisation (e.g. VirtualBox with USB
virtualisation, since that no longer depends on /proc/bus/usb :) ).  The
other would be a preloaded libary which emulated /proc/bus/usb while
actually accessing /dev/bus/usb and sysfs.  Much like the way that OSS
was emulated in user space over ALSA.  The second solution should also
work for USBView by the way.

Such a library is in my opinion a correct way of dealing with legacy
devices which are lacking in current kernels (keeping the support in the
kernel after its sell-by date is rather ugly, it seems to me) and it
shouldn't be too much work to write as long as you don't have to support
polling on files, although I hasten to add that I'm not volunteering for
the job :)

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Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156085
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