Hi! On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:12:47PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 23:38 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > > > but "has to use it"? I think that is wrong. noone forces you. > > > sure, using the different directories would allow people to use > > > acl, which is not possible on usbfs. > > > > Has to use it, because /proc/bus/usb is not usable anymore if the > > permissions are wrong. I already received dozen of mails when udev > > stopped to changes the permissions of /proc/bus/usb in favor of > > /dev/bus/usb. > > wouldn't it be better to fix it and set permissions on both, if both > exist? forcing people to upgrade is a very bad idea, and often > not possible at all.
Well it's what maintainers of packages related to USB have started to do, but it is not handled by the udev package, and the maintainer of this package has refused to do it. Therefore that means that each package using libusb need to provide a kind of wrapper to also modify the permissions of /proc/bus/usb. Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
