Comment 15 for bug 159189

I might be able to produce a prober patch, but I'm still new and don't know
my way around, and I have no working linux machine at the moment. when I get
back next week I will try to help the best way I can.

On 7/24/08, Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> please try to use sysfs for a proper fix rather than reintroducing the
> obsolete usbfs, i would love to work on it but am very short on time for
> intrepid to take extra actions atm. if someone wants to produce a proper
> patch i'd be willing to review and merge it though.
>
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> lsusb : Fix or remove -t option
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159189
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> Status in "usbutils" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> In Gutsy, the /proc/bus/usb tree has been removed (for seemingly good
> reason, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/156085/comments/6), but
> the lsusb command doesn't work quite right without access to the file
> /proc/bus/usb/devices.
>
> In particular the "lsusb -t" command gives:
>
> cannot open /proc/bus/usb/devices, No such file or directory
>
> Since (according to the above comment) /proc/bus/usb is broken, lsusb
> should have the -t option fixed or removed.
>