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From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACL_MANAGE meaning in udev is inconsistent
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:26:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304092644.GC2410@piware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4eb41061002182237mc53a581haced9dc06598be2f@mail.gmail.com>

Frederic Crozat [2010-03-04  9:40 +0100]:
> Hmm, this is problematic : a lot of rules outside udev are using
> ACL_MANAGE to specify ACL should be set for some devices. I would
> suggest to not "deprecate" ACL_MANAGE outside 70-acl.rules but
> internally to 70-acl.rules, use another variable.

Oh, do you know which? The only one I'm aware of is gnome-bluetooth
for /dev/rfkill, which is evil, bad, and wrong:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idQ4798

It really shouldn't be used outside of 70-acl.rules.

Kay, perhaps we should turn this into a non-public symbol, like
"_ACL_MANAGE"?

Martin

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-04  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19  6:37 ACL_MANAGE meaning in udev is inconsistent Rafał Rzepecki
2010-03-03 23:51 ` Martin Pitt
2010-03-04  0:33 ` Kay Sievers
2010-03-04  8:40 ` Frederic Crozat
2010-03-04  9:26 ` Martin Pitt [this message]
2010-03-04  9:54 ` Frederic Crozat
2010-03-04 19:15 ` Kay Sievers
2010-03-04 19:23 ` Kay Sievers

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