Re: [PATCH] usb: hub: report failure to enumerate uevent to userspace

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 17:27:08 EST


David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > - Looking at commit [4], it seems that the new "notifier" interface/api
> > forces userspace applications to link against -lkeyutils [5].
>
> No. The keyctl(2) syscall is implemented in -lkeyutils library, and not in
> -lc. That's all. If you want to call KEYCTL_NOTIFY to watch a key or
> keyring, you need it; not otherwise.

Sorry, KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY, not KEYCTL_NOTIFY. I've changed my mind about the
naming of things a couple of times and should probably harmonise them.

David