On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Karl O. Pinc a écrit : > > > > lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in > > > no output for the device to which there are no permissions. > > > > > As already explained, lsusb does not parse /dev, but uses libusb for > > that. If a device is not in the list given by libusb, lsusb has no way > > to guess that a device is missing. > > That's why I'm writing to (I hope) the authors of Linux's usb > internals, so they can expose an interface libusb can use > to come up with good error reporting.
Shouldn't you be writing to the authors of libusb instead? The interface between libusb and the kernel is adequate; you're asking about changes to the interface between libusb and lsusb. Alan Stern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
