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USB: rename the usb misc class from "usb" to "usbmisc"

RFC PATCH New Greg Kroah-Hartman 1 participant 1 message Apr 26, 2012 USB

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RFC PATCH 1/1 USB: rename the usb misc class from "usb" to "usbmisc"

This class was not named properly years ago, and it turns out that tools like udev can't properly see the devices in this class after booting due to the fact that there is a bus with the same name in the system.

Changing this to "usbmisc" fixes this problem, and it solves the problem for the future when we want to unify classes and busses.

---
 drivers/usb/core/file.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/usb/core/file.c +1 -1
index d95760d..8b63a51 100644
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static int init_usb_class(void)
 	}
 
 	kref_init(&usb_class->kref);
-	usb_class->class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "usb");
+	usb_class->class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "usbmisc");
 	if (IS_ERR(usb_class->class)) {
 		result = IS_ERR(usb_class->class);
 		printk(KERN_ERR "class_create failed for usb devices\n");