From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: $local user
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:55:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041018195548.GB24575@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041018191000.GD7487@vrfy.org>
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:10:00PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> We once implemented the devfsd feature to set the owner of a device node
> to the "local" user. This was before we had the dev.d/ scripts. We discussed
> a similar issue with D-BUS recently and this should be better handled depending
> on the distributions way to do such a thing.
>
> I'm for removing this here as this can be easily covered by a dev.d/
> script.
>
> Here is the patch if nobody objects :)
Heh, in a quick scan, I don't see any distros that use this. And I
agree, now that we have dev.d/ there's no need for this.
Applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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