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authorKyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>2016-07-03 00:52:33 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-07-24 07:27:53 +0700
commite4f1b8a198ef6036031bc54ff80c0376410c1ec1 (patch)
treeb145c83c3f78fa7b75ac44394a0590d5f8c3a05b /system
parentb713690435e1936168076cab242968f5e97a6d31 (diff)
system/usbview: Update README.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/system/usbview/README b/system/usbview/README
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@@ -9,3 +9,9 @@ For this program to be useful, you will need to mount the debug filesystem
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