Re: [PATCH] usbredir: fix redirection of user-accesible device nodes.

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:11:36PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Excerpts from Christophe Fergeau's message of Mon Jun 29 17:01:23 +0200 2015:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:52:31PM +0200, Suchánek Michal wrote:
> > > Or the other way around compiling in policykit support *should not
> > > disable* access to already accessible devices.
> > 
> > We agree on that, and the log of the commit you revert also agrees
> > « So this patch changes things to first call the helper and only then
> > try to open the device node. »
> > 
> > > It's indeed the case. However, this is merely a cosmetic issue while
> > > the fix for the cosmetic issue causes a functional error.
> > 
> > But to fix your issue, you don't have to reintroduce this cosmetic
> > issue, you could just make sure we try to directly open the USB device
> > if the policykit call failed.
> 
> The problem is how do you present the error then?
> 
> If policykit call fails and you proceed to open the device directly do
> you report the policykit error or the libusb error or somehow merge
> them?

I'd present the policykit error when the binary is built with policykit
support.

Christophe

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