[ltp] tpctl and devfs notice

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
07 Dec 2001 10:19:35 -0500


Recent changes to devfs and devfsd necessitate that
devfsd be configured a bit differently from how one
was instructed to configure it in the README file in
earlier 3.0-prerelease versions of the thinkpad package.

The line in the devfsd.conf file (or, under Debian, in
the /etc/devfs/conf.d/thinkpad file) should be this:

REGISTER ^thinkpad/.*$    PERMISSIONS root.thinkpad  0664

Explanation: The README file used to advise this config:
  REGISTER thinkpad PERMISSIONS root.thinkpad  0664  <-- wrong
This was okay so long as devfs didn't notify devfsd of
the creation of directories.  But now that devfs does
notify devfsd of the creation of directories, the latter
config results in the /dev/thinkpad directory not being
examinable.

--
Thomas Hood


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