Re: [PATCH] allow to specify node permissions in the rule

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:12:23AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> This allows to set the permissions along with the rule.
> 
> This is not a general replacement for the permissions config, but it
> may be easier sometimes for the user to specify the permissions along
> with the rule, cause the permissions config file wants the final node
> name to match, which seems sometimes a bit difficult to guess, if
> format % chars are used in the NAME field.
> 
> Any value not given in the rule is still be read from the permissions
> file or set to the default. This one will also work:
> 
>   BUS="usb", KERNEL="video*", NAME="my-%k", OWNER="$local"
> 
> A few words to man page are also added and add_perm_dev() is moved into
> namedev_parse.c where it belongs to.

Hm, as enough people have asked for something like this, I've applied
it.

Any chance on being able to add a test for this kind of stuff to the
udev-test.pl script?

thanks,

greg k-h


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