Comment 35 for bug 156085

Was there really no process during Gutsy (and Hardy nearly already) for these bugs?

Re-opening the sysvinit task:
I'm not affected by it myself, but I wonder why we cannot just enable the magic to make it work by default, from /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh (code commented out by default):
        #
        # Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
        #
        mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
        domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
        ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
        mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

Scott wrote:
> Support for /proc/bus/usb has been dropped because it is racey, and permissions are difficult to set --
> compared with /dev/bus/usb which is maintained by udev and doesn't have these issues.

It does not appear to be really frown to permission issues, because it links to the udev controlled interface.