Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> Cc: usb@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB devfs patch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902260935190.16988@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20090226020330.GC25211@citylink.fud.org.nz> References: <20090226020330.GC25211@citylink.fud.org.nz>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote: > Below is a patch from Rink Springer to change the new USB stack to use devfs > device nodes. I have tested this with a usb mouse and I am hoping people > with other devices can test too, in particular scanners (sane app) and lpt > ports. > > This also removes the custom permissions from usb and usbconfig. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/usb-cdevs.diff This seems to address my concerns, including eliminating the new use if PRIV_ROOT that got added. Once this is in the tree I can remove PRIV_ROOT entirely, so with any luck we can get a new fine-grained privilege model done by 8.0. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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