Re: udev: remove permissions file from udev

[Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@fmp.com>]

Thus spake Kay Sievers on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:36:51AM CST
> Just an example how nice the permissions application can work now. The
> following line applies the "disk" group ownership to all block devices
> not catched by an earlier explicit rule.
> There is no longer the need to catch all the different node names of a
> device class.
> 
> --- a/etc/udev/gentoo/udev.rules        2004-12-20 14:24:22 +01:00
> +++ b/etc/udev/gentoo/udev.rules        2004-12-20 14:24:22 +01:00
> @@ -207,6 +207,9 @@
>  # rem_ide devices
>  KERNEL="microdrive*",	NAME="%k", GROUP="disk"
>  
> +# all block devices
> +SUBSYSTEM="block",	NAME="%k", GROUP="disk"
> +
>  # kbd devices
>  KERNEL="kbd",		NAME="%k", MODE="0664"

If it hasn't been done, I'm going to lobby once again for the inclusion in
udev of a utility which will will parse the sysfs tree for acceptable values
for KERNEL and spit out copy 'n paste lines which are acceptable in a rules
file, much the way udevinfo does for SYSFS{*} terms.  I corresponded with
Greg KH on this a while back and he suggested a simple shell script for
this, which I tweaked a bit and reposted.  Such as script could also show
acceptable values for SUBSYSTEM.  If it hasn't been done, and I get a moment
after the 1st of the year, I'll work on something and post it.

Thanks!

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