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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-09-18 23:01:12 +0200
committerLive-CD User <linux@linux.site>2009-09-19 12:50:38 -0700
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Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions
This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/miscdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/miscdevice.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index 052117744629..adaf3c15e449 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ struct miscdevice {
struct list_head list;
struct device *parent;
struct device *this_device;
- const char *devnode;
+ const char *nodename;
+ mode_t mode;
};
extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc);