> So why not simply let the driver decide upon it's nodes' permissions?
Ever heard about policy vs mechanism?
If I want to allow all users/some users to access the floppy drive, I have
to recompile the kernel?? Or at least reboot? If you want that, you know
where you can find systems that can't be reconfigured in trivial ways
without rebooting.
> >> The use of a config file to determine permissions/ownership is not >
> >> foreign to the kernel or filesystems.
> >Name one use of configuration files for local permissions/ownership on
> >Unix/Linux.
> This is a straw man argument. You take an easy target, knock it down,
> and it really doesn't mean anything, but you claim victory. Shame.
You claimed the above, I ask where this is done, and now I'm fighting
strawmen set up by me?!
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