thor0...@comcast.net ("William D. Jones") writes:
>1. I'd like to keep the number of device files whose permissions I modify to a
>minimum, just in case something goes very wrong due to programming error.
>Unfortunately, ugen* generates a device file for every single USB endpoint for
>every single device.
>2. I'm not sure if my FPGA board will always show up on the same device nodes,
>which means that I have to change permissions for even more devices in
>anticipation!
>3. My default installation seems to have generated device nodes only for up to
>4 generic devices, and I have the potential to exhaust all of them (I suppose
>running MAKEDEV will fix this)?
>That said, is this the "canonical"/correct way to allow USB devices to be
>accessible by normal users? Or since the above post was written, has there
>been a different kernel framework that allows normal users to access USB
>devices.
>More generally, is adding users to device-specific groups, changing device
>ownership to these groups and adding entries to/running MAKEDEV.local still
>the canonical way to customize device permissions, a la the equivalent
>functionality in Linux?
I'm not sure what Linux does, but on NetBSD that's so far the only method.
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