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diff --git a/system/usbview/README b/system/usbview/README index 320d09410478e..03ae2de1e8175 100644 --- a/system/usbview/README +++ b/system/usbview/README @@ -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 |