On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:30, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 20, Piter PUNK <piterpunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Only to know... why rtc in "audio" group? > Because it was needed by mplayer and it's a good approximation of users > with local console access. We do want to "approximate" local console access. There is infrastructure in place today that does that properly. If that's the only reason, we should not add it to the default rules. >> Re nvram group, I don't see why it shouldn't be root or kmem - is >> there a legitimate reason why a normal user should have write access >> to /dev/nvram? > I remember some thinkpad-specific application, for a start. That was before the proper kernel drivers, right? Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
