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authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>2007-08-24 12:19:22 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-10-12 14:55:21 -0700
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USB: usbmon doc update - mention new wildcard ('0') bus
Update usbmon documentation, mentioning the "zero" (wildcard) bus. Possibly, in my first hunk, the 'either ... or ...' should be rephrased a bit to be expressed better. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
index 53ae866..2917ce4 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ if usbmon is built into the kernel.
Verify that bus sockets are present.
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon
-1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u
+0s 0t 0u 1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u
#
+Now you can choose to either use the sockets numbered '0' (to capture packets on
+all buses), and skip to step #3, or find the bus used by your device with step #2.
+
2. Find which bus connects to the desired device
Run "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices", and find the T-line which corresponds to
@@ -56,6 +59,10 @@ Bus=03 means it's bus 3.
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon/3u > /tmp/1.mon.out
+to listen on a single bus, otherwise, to listen on all buses, type:
+
+# cat /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon/0u > /tmp/1.mon.out
+
This process will be reading until killed. Naturally, the output can be
redirected to a desirable location. This is preferred, because it is going
to be quite long.