From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:59:26 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - TODO update Message-Id: <20040213015926.GA21514@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20040212234538.GC21117@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040212234538.GC21117@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:26:37PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:45:38AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > Here a few questions about my favorite file in the tree :) > > > > - option to always add all partitions. This is needed to properly handle > > devices with removable media. > > > > Sounds soooo... ugly, but seems we should do it. Any idea which direction? > > I think a config option. If set, we ignore the partition devices, and > just create every possible partition when we see the "main" block > device. This is needed for removable media devices. > > I agree it is ugly, but if anyone else can come up with an idea? I don't expect a better idea :) I will try someting during the next few days. > > - keep track of current permissions on devices when daemon shuts down. > > > > Hmm, what is this? > > When the /etc/init.d/udev script shuts down we need to save any > permission changes that have been done to the device nodes. That way a > user can do: > chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB1 > and we will pick this change up the next time we boot up. Sounds a bit fragile and is it really needed? We can't preserve the node permissions on simple device disconnect/connect cycle this way, but want to do it during reboot? thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel