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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
