On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 16:48, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Na, I mean, I remember you talking about some other channel of notifications about jack changes. Didn't the input devices get replaced by something on the control device? Or was that just a plan? 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
