From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim Crilly" Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:20:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060105212019.GA23780@voodoo> List-Id: References: <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> <20060104010123.GK3831@stusta.de> <20060104113726.3bd7a649@mango.fruits.de> <20060104191750.798af1da@mango.fruits.de> <74F7C515-831F-42E4-9A6F-70A9C11E8BB3@neostrada.pl> In-Reply-To: <74F7C515-831F-42E4-9A6F-70A9C11E8BB3@neostrada.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marcin Dalecki Cc: Florian Schmidt , Takashi Iwai , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/04/06 08:28:59PM +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > On 2006-01-04, at 19:17, Florian Schmidt wrote: > >Maybe create a /proc control, so users can revert > >to the olde behaviour if there really is any need. > > YES YES! After all who doesn't use his system logged in as root? You can change the rights and ownership of files in /proc, so distributions that use something like pam_console could change them when someone logs in. That and most people know that poking around in /proc generally requires root priviledges so making them use su or sudo wouldn't be a surprise. Jim.