[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#360165: initscripts: Don't mount /proc/bus/usb if it's not necessary

[Sam Morris]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-13
Severity: wishlist

Since kernel 2.6.14 (I think), /proc/bus/usb has not been necessary
since udev will create device nodes for usb devices in /dev/bus/usb.
Since libusb 2:0.1.10a-22, libusb try and look for devices in /dev/bus/usb
before searching /proc/bus/usb.

I have commented out the code that mounts the usbfs in mountkernfs.sh
with no ill effect. It would be nice if the script would only mount the
usbfs if /dev/bus/usb is not available to manage the device nodes for
USB devices.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                2.15.3        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                  1.37-2sarge1  ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-3       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  lsb-base                   3.0-16        Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  mount                      2.12p-4sarge1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin

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