Into.the.Void.

I just wanted a tool to easily monitor my usb devices, and that should be lsusb . In Gentoo it’s inside usbutils package, but when I tried to emerge it I got a ton of errors like that:

In file included from /usr/include/linux/usb.h:4,
from access.c:34:
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:18: error: syntax error before "__u32"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:20: error: syntax error before "class"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:21: error: syntax error before "driver_data"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:31: error: syntax error before "__u32"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:33: error: syntax error before "model_id"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:34: error: syntax error before "specifier_id"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:35: error: syntax error before "version"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:36: error: syntax error before "driver_data"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:99: error: syntax error before "__u16"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:103: error: syntax error before "idProduct"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:104: error: syntax error before "bcdDevice_lo"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:105: error: syntax error before "bcdDevice_hi"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:108: error: syntax error before "bDeviceClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:109: error: syntax error before "bDeviceSubClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:110: error: syntax error before "bDeviceProtocol"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:113: error: syntax error before "bInterfaceClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:114: error: syntax error before "bInterfaceSubClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:115: error: syntax error before "bInterfaceProtocol"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:118: error: syntax error before "driver_info"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:135: error: syntax error before "__u16"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:138: error: syntax error before "dev_type"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:139: error: syntax error before "cu_model"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:140: error: syntax error before "dev_model"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:142: error: syntax error before "driver_info"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:155: error: syntax error before "__u8"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:160: error: syntax error before "__u8"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:163: error: syntax error before "__u8"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:165: error: syntax error before '}' token


The solution was to edit /usr/src/linux/include/linux/usb.h and comment out lines 4 and 5:

4 /*#include 5 #include */

Then I emerged usbutils just fine…uncommented the previous lines…and everything is working properly:

# lsusb
Unknown line at line 1809
Duplicate HUT Usage Spec at line 2650
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro, Inc. Hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub


Filed by kargig at 15:06 under General,Linux
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