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 18:45:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406174512.GL4068@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130406172612.GA27809@kroah.com>
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:26:12AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Why not? "closed" systems, like Android and other embedded systems,
> have "assigned" uid and gid values that never change. Right now they
> have to have a horrible shell-script to set these values in devtmpfs
> when the device shows up to the needed numbers. This tiny patch gets
> rid of that shell script entirely, allowing them to specify it from the
> kernel as needed.
What's to stop them from using static /dev? Has an extra benefit of
getting rid of devtmpfs shite completely...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-06 17:45 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
2013-04-06 17:26 ` Greg KH
2013-04-06 17:45 ` Al Viro [this message]
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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