Re: number of /dev/usb nodes

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Bernd Walter wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:18:41PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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I can't seem to find how many /dev/usbN bus devices there can be. I'm writing
some code that scans them all looking for anything that has my device, but I
while I know to start at usb0, just how high do I go? There seem to be 128
device minors, is that the number? (from dev/usb/usb.h)

There shouldn't be a limit anymore.
I can't see any definition of 128 in usb.h that limits the number of
busses.
The major/minor differenciation is long time ago.
You must be looking at old code.


I was trying to find a good way to do scanning, whjen I create the files like
/dev/usb0, how far to go in my loop? Does the lowest available device always
get created? That would imply that as soon as I began to get "No such device"
errors, I could stop iterating. If the rules for picking device filenames are
pretty loose, then I could (for instance) stop scanning, say, 4 numbers past the
first "No such device" returnee.

Any idea on this? I didn't see this i nthe code, but I just need some sane
limit on what filenames to scan about in. I look for item info, and if the usb
vendor and prodict look friendly, I just snag the filename involved, and use
that. Like, a scan of the usb1 bus might yield me a uhid0 which might be my
meat, whereupon I coulld drop the usb1 open, and replace it with a uhid0 open.
There's more than 1 place that my devices could show, depending on the user's
kernel devices. I just want to have some sane limit on how many usb buses I
open for my scanning.
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