One missing piece for userspace (PulseAudio etc) to actually be able to
use the jack input devices that ALSA create, is that these devices are
accessible by root only. This patch makes the input device nodes
accessible by the same users that can access the sound card: the current
logged in user, as well as users in the audio group.
One thing I was thinking about, was that the udev-acl rule actually
grants read-write access to the input device node, where probably only
read access is needed. Is this dangerous?
--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic
>From a45276437c8c3fe62fc001f43d715bfe931dd438 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:36:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] udev: Allow ALSA input jacks to be accessed by the current user
One missing piece for userspace (PulseAudio etc) to actually be able
to use the jack input devices that ALSA create, is that these devices
are accessible by root only. This patch makes the input device nodes
accessible by the same users that can access the sound card: the current
logged in user, as well as users in the audio group.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
extras/input_id/input_id.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
extras/udev-acl/70-acl.rules | 1 +
rules/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules | 1 +
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/extras/input_id/input_id.c b/extras/input_id/input_id.c
index ba53df0..814ce8e 100644
--- a/extras/input_id/input_id.c
+++ b/extras/input_id/input_id.c
@@ -189,6 +189,25 @@ static void test_key (struct udev *udev,
puts("ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD=1");
}
+static void test_sound (struct udev_device *dev,
+ const unsigned long* bitmask_sw)
+{
+
+ struct udev_device *snd_dev;
+
+ /* Ensure parent is sound card */
+ snd_dev = udev_device_get_parent_with_subsystem_devtype(dev, "sound", NULL);
+ if (!snd_dev)
+ return;
+
+ /* Check that there is at least one relevant switch type */
+ if (test_bit(SW_HEADPHONE_INSERT, bitmask_sw) ||
+ test_bit(SW_MICROPHONE_INSERT, bitmask_sw) ||
+ test_bit(SW_LINEOUT_INSERT, bitmask_sw) ||
+ test_bit(SW_VIDEOOUT_INSERT, bitmask_sw))
+ puts("ID_INPUT_SNDJACK=1");
+}
+
static void help(void)
{
printf("Usage: input_id [options] <device path>\n"
@@ -212,6 +231,7 @@ int main (int argc, char** argv)
unsigned long bitmask_abs[NBITS(ABS_MAX)];
unsigned long bitmask_key[NBITS(KEY_MAX)];
unsigned long bitmask_rel[NBITS(REL_MAX)];
+ unsigned long bitmask_sw[NBITS(SW_MAX)];
udev = udev_new();
if (udev == NULL)
@@ -272,10 +292,13 @@ int main (int argc, char** argv)
get_cap_mask (dev, "capabilities/abs", bitmask_abs, sizeof (bitmask_abs));
get_cap_mask (dev, "capabilities/rel", bitmask_rel, sizeof (bitmask_rel));
get_cap_mask (dev, "capabilities/key", bitmask_key, sizeof (bitmask_key));
+ get_cap_mask (dev, "capabilities/sw", bitmask_sw, sizeof (bitmask_sw));
test_pointers(bitmask_ev, bitmask_abs, bitmask_key, bitmask_rel);
test_key(udev, bitmask_ev, bitmask_key);
+ test_sound(dev, bitmask_sw);
+
return 0;
}
diff --git a/extras/udev-acl/70-acl.rules b/extras/udev-acl/70-acl.rules
index 037349d..a6f54d9 100644
--- a/extras/udev-acl/70-acl.rules
+++ b/extras/udev-acl/70-acl.rules
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_generic", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{type}=="4|5", TAG+="udev-ac
# sound devices
SUBSYSTEM=="sound", TAG+="udev-acl"
+SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_INPUT_SNDJACK}=="1", TAG+="udev-acl"
# ffado is an userspace driver for firewire sound cards
SUBSYSTEM=="firewire", ENV{ID_FFADO}=="1", TAG+="udev-acl"
diff --git a/rules/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules b/rules/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules
index cd1de4e..d04c09e 100644
--- a/rules/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules
+++ b/rules/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ENV{ID_INPUT_MOUSE}=="?*", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="mouse"
ENV{ID_INPUT_TOUCHPAD}=="?*", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="mouse"
ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}=="?*", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="mouse"
ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=="?*", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="joystick"
+ENV{ID_INPUT_SNDJACK}=="?*", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="sndjack", GROUP="audio"
DRIVERS=="pcspkr", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="spkr"
ATTRS{name}=="*dvb*|*DVB*|* IR *", ENV{.INPUT_CLASS}="ir"
--
1.7.4.1
