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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Add udev rule
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:04:54 -0500
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>>
>> I believe F12 is installing it 666.  If we think it's safe, it's 
>> probably the right thing to do.
>>     
>
> Err, you mean /dev/kvm, not this rules file, right?
>   

Yeah, not enough caffeine yet..

> Well, in theory it should be safe, but I would currently leave this
> decision to the person finally building a package out of kvm-kmod or
> doing some post-install adjustment on a concrete system. Better safe
> than sorry, specifically as kvm-kmod may contain the latest bleeding edge.
>   

Sure, but I think distros should be more conservative than upstream.  If 
we're uncomfortable making it 666, then certainly a distro shouldn't do 
that on it's own.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori