Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:02:13 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: usb2: scanner no longer working Message-ID: <200811072002.15868.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20081107185516.GC39947@rink.nu> References: <200811071134.42761.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20081107184929.GJ1165@hoeg.nl> <20081107185516.GC39947@rink.nu>
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On Friday 07 November 2008, Rink Springer wrote: > 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. Hi, How do you plan to integrate this? Do you have any patches? --HPS
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