From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:42:20 +0000 Subject: Re: Moving Ubuntu to upstream udev rules Message-Id: 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 Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: > 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. We do want to "approximate" local console access. There is infrastructure in place today that does that properly. If that's the only reason, we should not add it to the default rules. >> 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. That was before the proper kernel drivers, right? Thanks, Kay