Subject: Re: [RFC] Let non-root users eject their ipods?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, greg@kroah.com, axboe@suse.de
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:56:39 +0000
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On Llu, 2005-12-19 at 18:51 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> So below is a patch that allows non-root users to eject their ipods. (It
> seems it should be safe_for_write() but eject opens the device for
> RDONLY, so eject may be wrong here as well). 
> 
> Comments, flames?

I think its probably uninteresting to the majority of users to solve it
that way (not that its wrong that I can see). The desktops handle
automount/umount these days and if anything what would cover most bases
is to teach umount a new option/fstab flag so that it will handle the
device eject as it handles the non-root umount management.

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