At Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:17:07 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 2011-06-16 16:48, Takashi Iwai 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. > > > > I can't judge more since I haven't seen the patch. > > It was posted to alsa-devel (for comments) two days ago, see: > > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2011-June/040916.html > > and > > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2011-June/040917.html Thanks, I see it now. 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
