From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:19:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: USB: usbmon doc update - mention new wildcard ('0') bus X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1395^2~59 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=092a212e8e3eb49ab7360d652f457d0a360d5383;p=linux-2.6 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 Cc: Pete Zaitcev Cc: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt index 53ae866ae3..2917ce4ffd 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.