Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:22:22 -0800 (PST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: TTY changes to 2.1.65 |
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On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Rik van Riel wrote: [snip] > We could implement /dev in the same way we implement /proc... > Device drivers can register/unregister their device files in > /dev and they get assigned a 'device number' for each device > they allocate (no need for major/minor numbers) > > For devices that are compiled-in some script in /etc/rc.d > could change the permissions to the wanted ones. > Loadable modules could get the dev_perm=0600 or whatever > as a command-line option (from /etc/conf.modules). > > This would probably cost us 10 to 20 k of kernel-mem, but > that's a small price to pay (even on a 4M machine) for > making things _work_ in all circumstances... > > No need to ever assign major/minor numbers again would > also help people who built a custom device driver or > made a kernel-patch for some driver (without registering > a major with Linus). > > comments wanted, > > Rik. How would this keep track of permissions? On my system I have some devices that I allow only certain users on.
Gerhard
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