From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Borzenkov Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:05:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] udev craze: need /dev/bus/usb rationale Message-Id: <200601270705.07784.arvidjaar@mail.ru> List-Id: References: <20060126094517.GA4063@bode.aurel32.net> In-Reply-To: <20060126094517.GA4063@bode.aurel32.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 January 2006 05:25, Greg KH wrote: > > I want to understand the reason for these device nodes since they seem > > to duplicate the nodes found in /proc/bus/usb. Is this just part of the > > long term plans to remove usbdevfs? > > They duplicate those nodes identically. But now we can use udev and pam > and other tools to properly set the permissions and acls on the nodes. > Much easier than doing it through usbfs mount permissions, which only > work for all usbfs devices. > Does Mandrake have patched kernel procfs? {pts/1}% LC_ALL=C ll /proc/bus/usb/001 total 0 - -rw-rw---- 1 bor usb 43 Jan 27 06:40 001 they have been PAM-controlled as long as I remember. Not that I advocate keeping them (I do not care as long as higher-level tools work), just curious. - -andrey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2ZvzR6LMutpd94wRApEfAJ0Xlt05i1yFrfOOowHkIXV6Lb5J8wCeL4iy yKdFwRCgkiqIUJ61wCycOv4=oexA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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