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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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* Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > There are serious issues with the permissions model, which were raised
> > in Strasbourg and AFAIK never addressed.
>=20
> This is more complicated than you think. If you require a change in this =
area=20
> than please point me to an existing example implementing something simila=
r. I=20
> know about the "kern_priv()" function, but there are no specific groups f=
or=20
> USB, which needs to be discussed. The current implementation is good enou=
gh=20
> 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.

--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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