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From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:28:17 -0400
Subject: [refpolicy] what is a suitable type for /dev/cdc-wdm[01]
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On 09/27/11 11:49, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 09:17 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>> On 09/26/11 06:27, Dominick Grift wrote:

>>>> device. Ericsson has provided a driver which is mostly a copy of 
>>>> cdc_ether.c.  Nice feature to have, but I've not been able to measure 
>>>> any speed advantages compared to PPP on ttyACM0.  Still, fun to play 
>>>> with :-)
>>>
>>> Also, why are ACM tty character device nodes labeled type tty_device_t
>>> and not for example acmtty_device_t?
>>
>> It would seem that modem_device_t would be a better choice, assuming all ttyACM* devices are cellular modems.
>>
> 
> From what i am reading these ttyACM character device nodes are "USB
> virtual serial ports"
> 
> On my system they are used for sms gps and ppp but i am not sure if that
> makes modem_device_t a suitable type for these.
 
Then it seems that tty_device_t is appropriate.

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Chris PeBenito
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