Re: udev: remove permissions file from udev

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 18:10 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> As discussed this week, here we remove the explicit permissions file
> from udev. All permissions should be specified along with the rule now,
> to have only one source of policy.
> 
> This simplifies the whole udev process and removes the need to parse a
> second file in a different format. The rule file will grow a bit to
> apply some permissions, but its an overall win.
> 
> You may look at the changes at:
>   http://vrfy.bkbits.net:8080/udev/ChangeSet@-8d?nav=index.html
> 
> or pull it from:
>   bk://vrfy.bkbits.net/udev

> To get this working, the current rules file needs to be updated. I
> started to convert the gentoo and the Fedora file available in the tree.
> Any help here is appreciated, cause we need to be sure, that it will
> work before we make a new release.

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"
 

Thanks,
Kay




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