On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:56:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > From: Kay Sievers <[email protected]> > > Some drivers want to tell userspace what uid and gid should be used for > their device nodes, so allow that information to percolate through the > driver core to userspace in order to make this happen. This means that > some systems (i.e. Android and friends) will not need to even run a > udev-like daemon for their device node manager and can just rely in > devtmpfs fully, reducing their footprint even more.
Excuse me, but "some drivers" have no fucking business to mess with uid and gid assignments in the first place... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
