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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfs
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:09:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406170952.GK4068@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130406165600.GA29660@kroah.com>

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...

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-06 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-06 16:56 Greg KH
2013-04-06 17:09 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-04-06 17:26   ` Greg KH
2013-04-06 17:45     ` Al Viro
2013-04-06 17:58       ` Greg KH
2013-04-07 16:38         ` Kay Sievers
2013-04-08 18:14 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-08 18:25   ` Greg KH
2013-04-09 15:11     ` Rob Landley
2013-04-11 16:08       ` Greg KH
2013-04-10  9:12 ` Ming Lei
2013-04-10 15:56   ` Greg KH
2013-04-10 16:07     ` Ming Lei
2013-04-11  4:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-11 15:56   ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 15:57     ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 16:31     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-11 16:43     ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 16:50       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-11 16:19   ` Greg KH
2013-04-11 16:41     ` Eric W. Biederman

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