On Fri, Oct 11, 2002, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
I think the point is that we don't need /dev/usb/scannerX stuff anymore if it's done completely via usbfs :) > > 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. Gotcha, I agree in that case. But that's another reason that static /dev is broken by design. > > Any other suggestions? devmode= is of limited usefulness. > > No other. Sorry. Of course we do. Kill the scanner kernel module. JE ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
