Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:09:52 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfs
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:56:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
> 
> Some drivers want to tell userspace what uid and gid should be used for
> their device nodes, so allow that information to percolate through the
> driver core to userspace in order to make this happen.  This means that
> some systems (i.e.  Android and friends) will not need to even run a
> udev-like daemon for their device node manager and can just rely in
> devtmpfs fully, reducing their footprint even more.

Excuse me, but "some drivers" have no fucking business to mess with
uid and gid assignments in the first place...
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