From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>
Cc: Jonathan Hudson <jonathan@daria.co.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: device(file) permissions for USB
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:27:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011206152721.M2710@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.ljcupnv.1ghotjk@ifi.uio.no> <664.3c0fd1b7.a66fa@trespassersw.daria.co.uk> <20011206223050.179cd30e.rene.rebe@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011206223050.179cd30e.rene.rebe@gmx.net>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:30:50PM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote:
>
> This is what I do - but IT SUCKS!! Can't the USB stuff simply use devfs so
> I can control the permissions of this USB nodes in a very nice / cleaner
> way I do with all my other stuff??? (In contrast to use some find -name
> | xargs chmod ... or simillar hacks ...)
How is using devfs (and devfsd) any different in "hack level" from using
/sbin/hotplug?
usbdevfs does not require devfs, which enables the majority of Linux
users to actually use it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-06 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.ljcupnv.1ghotjk@ifi.uio.no>
2001-12-06 20:14 ` Q: device(file) permissions for USB Jonathan Hudson
2001-12-06 21:30 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-06 23:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2001-12-06 23:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-06 23:57 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-07 0:20 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:21 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-07 0:35 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-06 23:45 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:00 ` Greg KH
2001-12-07 0:11 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:21 ` Greg KH
2001-12-06 20:01 kees
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