From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:55:48 +0000 Subject: Re: $local user Message-Id: <20041018195548.GB24575@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20041018191000.GD7487@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20041018191000.GD7487@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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