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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] How is group "usb" used in your system, if at all?
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:40:00
Message-Id: 514467FD.7060408@gentoo.org
1 I'm trying to find a reason to keep this line...
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3 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="usb"
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5 in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-gentoo.rules we have inherited from older udev,
6 going back some time now
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8 # find /dev -group usb -exec ls -l {} +
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10 results nothing on every system tested
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12 and the original /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules from
13 udev-197/198 has:
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15 SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", MODE="0664"
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17 which seems to be what we want?
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19 I can remember one or two ebuilds making use of group usb, but they have
20 their own udev rules that makes them to do that, and are not dependant
21 on these rules

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