HEADSUP usb2 (usb4bsd) to become default in 2 weeks.

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Tue Dec 23 19:08:09 UTC 2008


* Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > There are serious issues with the permissions model, which were raised
> > in Strasbourg and AFAIK never addressed.
> 
> This is more complicated than you think. If you require a change in this area 
> than please point me to an existing example implementing something similar. I 
> know about the "kern_priv()" function, but there are no specific groups for 
> USB, which needs to be discussed. The current implementation is good enough 
> for most use cases in my opinion.

Just create device nodes in devfs. Let devfs handle the permissions. If
they are insufficient, then we should add ACL support to devfs.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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