Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 04:02, Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

>>> I would love to have a way for the kernel to do something like devfs
>>> (it'd let me kill some ugly userspace code on my side)....
>>
>> How are permissions defined in your environment? What's the set of
>> permissions you need to apply?
>
> In our world we use groups to provide access to specific classes of
> hardware resources (audio, video, display, dsp, etc) and processes
> that have the appropriate permissions are arranged to run with
> necessary additional groups for the hardware they need to access.

These group numbers are always static on your system, and don't get
changed while the system is running? Like you always assign gid X to
all sound devices? Or do you need to manage them dynamically?

Do your device nodes permissions/ownership ever change on the running
system after the device is alive?

Thanks,
Kay