Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 22:56 schrieb Johannes Erdfelt:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > However, the kernel only enforces the privileges. It doesn't set them.
> >
> > That is not true. Hotplugging changes it. By assigning new devices
> > to existing device nodes, the kernel _does_ hand out permissions.
>
> It assigns the permissions that were configured by the user, either
> implicitly the default, of explictly via devmode=.
For usbfs nodes. It doesn't work for /dev/usb/scannerX
[..]
> Wait, let me go back to this. This cannot happen. A completely new
> device node is created with the defaults assigned previously. This isn't
> a traditional static /dev.
Entirely correct. You see, hotplug cannot do the job. It needs
further support. For everything that doesn't use usbfs
and reuses device nodes (everything but storage) we're in trouble.
[..]
> Any other suggestions? devmode= is of limited usefulness.
No other. Sorry.
Regards
Oliver
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