Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

[Daryll Strauss]

On 07/17/2009 09:32 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> OK, anything else?
>
> If mkinitrd bites the bullet in the new F12 feature then usbfs could be
> deprecated as well?
>    
There's an outside the tree application which breaks when /proc/bus/usb 
exists so you want to remove /proc/bus/usb from the tree to work around it.

How do you know there isn't some other outside the tree application that 
needs /proc/bus/usb? Asking on this list clearly doesn't prove that 
nothing else exists.

I'd argue you're covering up the symptom not fixing the cause. 
VirtualBox should fix their code not to use /proc/bus/usb if 
/sys/bus/usb exists. They can always add a switch to revert to the old 
behaviour should anyone actually need it.

Changing your OS to fix a broken app is always the wrong solution and 
that mentality is going to detrimental to Linux in general.

                     - |Daryll