From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266622AbUHIPmf (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:42:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266126AbUHIPjk (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:39:40 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:30409 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266303AbUHIPge (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:36:34 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Alan Cox To: Joerg Schilling Cc: James Bottomley , axboe@suse.de, eric@lammerts.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200408091412.i79EC7iR010554@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200408091412.i79EC7iR010554@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1092062034.14154.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:33:57 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 15:12, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >Linux has capabilities, ACLs and SELinux rulesets which can > >also be used to manage this. I can give the cd burner a role that > >permits it certain things. > > If you are right, why then is SuSE removing the warnings in cdrecord > that are there to tell the user that cdrecord is running with insufficient > privilleges? You'd have to ask them. Probably for the reason that most vendors remove a lot of the other weird warnings - it confuses end users.