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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-04-26 02:26:54 +0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-04-30 06:29:57 +0400 |
| commit | 007bab91324e6337bb150ffc17b20cf829686370 (patch) | |
| tree | 6aed165e4fb5d128720849abf7549e346e36158c /drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | |
| parent | fb28d58b72aa9215b26f1d5478462af394a4d253 (diff) | |
| download | linux-007bab91324e6337bb150ffc17b20cf829686370.tar.xz | |
USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
This option has been deprecated for many years now, and no userspace
tools use it anymore, so it should be safe to finally remove it.
Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | 23 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig index 751031e8d8d2..fe46fc09defc 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig @@ -27,29 +27,6 @@ config USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES comment "Miscellaneous USB options" depends on USB -config USB_DEVICE_CLASS - bool "USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED)" - depends on USB - default y - ---help--- - Userspace access to USB devices is granted by device-nodes exported - directly from the usbdev in sysfs. Old versions of the driver - core and udev needed additional class devices to export device nodes. - - These additional devices are difficult to handle in userspace, if - information about USB interfaces must be available. One device - contains the device node, the other device contains the interface - data. Both devices are at the same level in sysfs (siblings) and one - can't access the other. The device node created directly by the - usb device is the parent device of the interface and therefore - easily accessible from the interface event. - - This option provides backward compatibility for libusb device - nodes (lsusb) when usbfs is not used, and the following udev rule - doesn't exist: - SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \ - NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0644" - config USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS bool "Dynamic USB minor allocation" depends on USB |