Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:08:08 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP usb2 (usb4bsd) to become default in 2 weeks. Message-ID: <20081223190808.GC1176@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <200812231736.29198.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20081222214010.GA18389@elvis.mu.org> <20081223151942.GP18389@elvis.mu.org> <86y6y6ubxc.fsf@ds4.des.no> <200812231736.29198.hselasky@c2i.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > There are serious issues with the permissions model, which were raised > > in Strasbourg and AFAIK never addressed. > > This is more complicated than you think. If you require a change in this area > than please point me to an existing example implementing something similar. I > know about the "kern_priv()" function, but there are no specific groups for > USB, which needs to be discussed. The current implementation is good enough > for most use cases in my opinion. Just create device nodes in devfs. Let devfs handle the permissions. If they are insufficient, then we should add ACL support to devfs. -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklRNxgACgkQ52SDGA2eCwV5LwCfWF5sgcZ5NkFByEcfKBuys7nI /QsAnjUSNJMJB7sG2E2FIdqnlw18DO2d =EuY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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