From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 09:37:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAAB106566C; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6078FC1A; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14EA846B0D; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:37:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Andrew Thompson In-Reply-To: <20090226020330.GC25211@citylink.fud.org.nz> Message-ID: References: <20090226020330.GC25211@citylink.fud.org.nz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: usb@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB devfs patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:41 -0000 On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote: > Below is a patch from Rink Springer to change the new USB stack to use devfs > device nodes. I have tested this with a usb mouse and I am hoping people > with other devices can test too, in particular scanners (sane app) and lpt > ports. > > This also removes the custom permissions from usb and usbconfig. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/usb-cdevs.diff This seems to address my concerns, including eliminating the new use if PRIV_ROOT that got added. Once this is in the tree I can remove PRIV_ROOT entirely, so with any luck we can get a new fine-grained privilege model done by 8.0. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge