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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: Q: device(file) permissions for USB
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Greg KH wrote:

> 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

Because anybody who uses devfs might as well make everything in /dev 666
and do the same with /etc/shadow while we are at it?

> > | 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.

s/majority of/& sane/

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