From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfs
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:09:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406170952.GK4068@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130406165600.GA29660@kroah.com>
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:56:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
>
> Some drivers want to tell userspace what uid and gid should be used for
> their device nodes, so allow that information to percolate through the
> driver core to userspace in order to make this happen. This means that
> some systems (i.e. Android and friends) will not need to even run a
> udev-like daemon for their device node manager and can just rely in
> devtmpfs fully, reducing their footprint even more.
Excuse me, but "some drivers" have no fucking business to mess with
uid and gid assignments in the first place...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-06 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-06 16:56 [PATCH] driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfs Greg KH
2013-04-06 17:09 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-04-06 17:26 ` Greg KH
2013-04-06 17:45 ` Al Viro
2013-04-06 17:58 ` Greg KH
2013-04-07 16:38 ` Kay Sievers
2013-04-08 18:14 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-08 18:25 ` Greg KH
2013-04-09 15:11 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-11 16:08 ` Greg KH
2013-04-10 9:12 ` Ming Lei
2013-04-10 15:56 ` Greg KH
2013-04-10 16:07 ` Ming Lei
2013-04-11 4:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-11 15:56 ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 15:57 ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 16:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-11 16:43 ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 16:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-11 16:19 ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 16:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
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