Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:09:52 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | 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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