Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:55:16 +0100 From: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: usb2: scanner no longer working Message-ID: <20081107185516.GC39947@rink.nu> In-Reply-To: <20081107184929.GJ1165@hoeg.nl> References: <200811071134.42761.shoesoft@gmx.net> <200811071702.48123.hselasky@c2i.net> <20081107183801.GI1165@hoeg.nl> <200811071947.10612.hselasky@c2i.net> <20081107184929.GJ1165@hoeg.nl>
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:49:29PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello Hans, > > * Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote: > > Basically there is nothing wrong with using chmod and chown. Hence USB > > has its own directory system which is not part of devfs, it was > > natural to also have a separate utility to set the permissions and > > ownership, which might become more complicated than simply a user and > > group. At EuroBSDcon this year I got some ideas about defining > > functional permission groups, like permissions for all USB keyboards > > for example, instead of permissions for individual devices. This > > pradigm will then break with chmod and chown. > > But that's not the right direction. If we really want to do such things, > we should add ACL support to devfs, which is already something we > eventually want to do. I don't agree that we should create yet another > namespace with permissions instead of using the traditional /dev > directory. I'm working on migrating this to make_dev(9), so USB devices will get created like everything else and thus work properly using devfs et al. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox Mulder
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