Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:17:49 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       greg@kroah.com, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC] Let non-root users eject their ipods?
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>> 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 [...]

Don't forget about the folks that don't run udev. :D


Jan Engelhardt
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