Commit 092a212e authored by Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso's avatar Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent ce0d9325
...@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ if usbmon is built into the kernel. ...@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ if usbmon is built into the kernel.
Verify that bus sockets are present. Verify that bus sockets are present.
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon # 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 2. Find which bus connects to the desired device
Run "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices", and find the T-line which corresponds to 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. ...@@ -56,6 +59,10 @@ Bus=03 means it's bus 3.
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon/3u > /tmp/1.mon.out # 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 This process will be reading until killed. Naturally, the output can be
redirected to a desirable location. This is preferred, because it is going redirected to a desirable location. This is preferred, because it is going
to be quite long. to be quite long.
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