From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:30:11 +0000 Subject: Re: Moving Ubuntu to upstream udev rules Message-Id: <20081220113011.GA25293@bongo.bofh.it> List-Id: References: <1229669228.14012.30.camel@quest> In-Reply-To: <1229669228.14012.30.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Dec 20, Piter PUNK wrote: > Only to know... why rtc in "audio" group? Because it was needed by mplayer and it's a good approximation of users with local console access. > Re nvram group, I don't see why it shouldn't be root or kmem - is > there a legitimate reason why a normal user should have write access > to /dev/nvram? I remember some thinkpad-specific application, for a start. -- ciao, Marco