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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:27:22 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>
Cc: Jonathan Hudson <jonathan@daria.co.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: device(file) permissions for USB
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:30:50PM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote:
> 
> This is what I do - but IT SUCKS!! Can't the USB stuff simply use devfs so
> I can control the permissions of this USB nodes in a very nice / cleaner
> way I do with all my other stuff??? (In contrast to use some find -name
> | xargs chmod ... or simillar hacks ...)

How is using devfs (and devfsd) any different in "hack level" from using
/sbin/hotplug?

usbdevfs does not require devfs, which enables the majority of Linux
users to actually use it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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