Re: [PATCH] udev: Allow ALSA input jacks to be accessed by the current user

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 16:12, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

Takashi, wasn't there already something else to use from ALSA than the
artificial input devices?

Thanks,
Kay
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