At Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:28:08 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > 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? These input devices are just notification from the sound driver at jack plugging, so basically it's read-only indeed, and setting the file permission RO would make sense. I can't judge more since I haven't seen the patch. thanks, Takashi -- 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
