Bug#244978: is usbutils ever needed?

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 17:51, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Do you know if usbutils is needed for multi-interface
> devices, or will hotplug suffice?

/etc/hotplug/usb.rc contains the following code
<snip>
LISTER=`which usbmodules`
if [ "$LISTER" = "" -o ! -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ]; then
        echo "** can't synthesyze root hub events"
        return
fi
</snip>

usbmodules is a part of package usbutils.

But see also the comment just above that code which says the dependency on 
usbmodules should be dropped (starting kernel version 2.5?).
(I guess there should be a test for kernelversion in this script...)

Currently though I guess it's still needed (and not installed by default).

Hope this helps.
FJP