On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Robert Spanton writes: > > I've just packaged this for Fedora 12. Packages are here: > > > > http://xgoat.com/rpm/mspdebug/ > > Cool! Will add a link to these soon. > > > There are two patches in there that fix a couple of minor issues with > > packaging it. It'd be nice if you could include them Daniel: > > > > * http://xgoat.com/rpm/mspdebug/mspdebug-remove-root.patch > > * http://xgoat.com/rpm/mspdebug/mspdebug-create-missing-dirs.patch > > Done. They're in the public git repository. Current head is > e547106e0a0151b50dfd523d8047e5a6e9527023 > > - Daniel >
Hi Daniel, Does the "mspdebug-remove-root.patch" mentioned above imply that the statement "If you aren't running the program as root, you might not have permission to use the USB bus" (taken from the Download page of your website) no longer applies? As you may remember, this has been a long time concern of mine (not a huge concern, though!). I apologize for not closing the loop on the version 0.6 release announcement thread, concerning the creation of udev rules to give normal users access to the files in /dev/bus/usb, and, by extension, MSPDebug. I went away and read up on udev and developed an appreciation for its power in solving dynamic device management problems. After some trial and error I came up with some rules that seemed to work, mostly. There was one nagging message that I couldn't make go away: "rf2500: warning: can't detach kernel driver: No data available". Then I noticed that this same message appears in your Example usage transcript. So I guess it's not really a problem! I'd be happy to share my udev rules, but, as I mentioned, I'm wondering if the patch makes them unnecessary. Thanks once again for your continued improvements! John
