From e4f1b8a198ef6036031bc54ff80c0376410c1ec1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Guinn Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 00:52:33 -0500 Subject: system/usbview: Update README. Signed-off-by: Kyle Guinn --- system/usbview/README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'system/usbview') diff --git a/system/usbview/README b/system/usbview/README index 320d094104..03ae2de1e8 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 -- cgit v1.2.3