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diff --git a/system/usbview/README b/system/usbview/README index 03ae2de1e8..2f0167a16f 100644 --- a/system/usbview/README +++ b/system/usbview/README @@ -1,17 +1,4 @@ -USBView is a GTK program that displays the topography of the devices that are -plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays information on -each of the devices. This can be useful to determine if a device is working -properly or not. - -For this program to be useful, you will need to mount the debug filesystem -(debugfs). Add this line to your /etc/fstab: - - debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 - -Now a simple `mount debugfs` will make the USB info available to USBView. - -The debugfs root directory is accessible only to the root user by default. -You can grant access to the USB device info (as well as the rest of the -debugfs tree) with the "uid", "gid", and "mode" mount options. For example: - - debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto,mode=755 0 0 +USBView is a GTK program that displays the topography of the devices +that are plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays +information on each of the devices. This can be useful to determine if +a device is working properly or not. |