Re: ACL_MANAGE meaning in udev is inconsistent

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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 22:40, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 04/03/2010 01:33, Kay Sievers a écrit :

>> I'll remove that later on. Please do not rely on this functionality.
>> The ACL_MANAGE key must not leak to any other rules file. We will
>> likely change that name to be able to speed things up, and nothing
>> should use it outside the acl rules file.
>
> Hmm, this is problematic : a lot of rules outside udev are using ACL_MANAGE
> to specify ACL should be set for some devices. I would suggest to not
> "deprecate" ACL_MANAGE outside 70-acl.rules but internally to 70-acl.rules,
> use another variable.

Then please tag these devices with some other useful classification
and add that match to the acl rules file. If things happen as planned,
ACL_MANAGE will go away.

Thanks,
Kay
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