From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Add udev rule
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:36:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADC7963.10008@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADC76BF.9050308@codemonkey.ws>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Ported from OpenSUSE: Provide an udev rule that not only sets the group
>> of /dev/kvm but also triggers automatic loading of the kernel modules
>> during boot.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Makefile | 1 +
>> scripts/65-kvm.rules | 2 ++
>> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 scripts/65-kvm.rules
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 8314833..8614449 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ install:
>> if [ -f "$$i" ]; then mv "$$i" "$$i.orig"; fi; \
>> done
>> /sbin/depmod -a $(DEPMOD_VERSION) -b $(DESTDIR)
>> + install -m 644 -D scripts/65-kvm.rules $(DESTDIR)/etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules
>>
>
> 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?
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.
Jan
--
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-19 10:59 [PULL REQUEST] kvm-kmod Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 01/12] Provide schedule_hrtimeout for pre-2.6.28 kernels Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 05/12] Fix kvm_vma_kernel_pagesize for pre-2.6.27 kernels Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 08/12] Cleanup unused CONFIG_KVM_TRACE control Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 03/12] Add udev rule Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 13:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-19 13:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 13:28 ` Luca Tettamanti
2009-10-19 13:34 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 14:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-19 14:36 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2009-10-19 15:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 04/12] Fix build without CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 02/12] Use DESTDIR consitently on installation Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 09/12] Drop now unused config.kbuild Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 10/12] Add compat version of hlist_del_init_rcu Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 07/12] Define X86_FEATURE_GBPAGES if missing Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 06/12] Add compat version of native_read_tsc Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 12/12] Update source link Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 10:59 ` [PATCH 11/12] x86: Install compat wrapper for thread_struct.debugreg Jan Kiszka
2009-10-19 19:37 ` [PULL REQUEST] kvm-kmod Marcelo Tosatti
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