On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:42:58PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 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 :)

So the userspace SANE tools don't need the scanner driver anymore?  If
so, I'd be glad to remove the driver, like the others that we dropped a
while ago for this same reason.

thanks,

greg k-h


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