On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:40:31AM +0000, John Ervin wrote: > It seems that usb_register_dev used to support some features for adjusting the > file permissions for the devfs created file through its mode_t mode member. Yes, back in the 2.4 kernel days, that was a long time ago, ah, nostalgia... > That looks like it is gone. How could I change the file permissions of > the devfs file from the driver? Trying to avoid doing this from a > script... There is no more devfs, that went away about 5 years ago. If you mean the udev controlled /dev/ then you just need to modify a udev rule to do so. That's all done from userspace, no kernel change is needed. What usb device do you want your device node permissions changed for? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
