> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 07:10:23PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote: > > Add support for setting security labels(e.g. smack or selinux labels) to > > devtmpfs device nodes. In this manner, drivers can specify desired security > > label in their device_type->devnode or class->devnode method. > > What driver wants to do this? And how does it determine the proper > security label from within the kernel? Isn't that something that only > userspace can know/set properly? Yes, It is possible by userspace, But This api change will help to set uid/gid and xattr values easily without need of complex userspace scripts in absence of udev like helper. And security label that decided as per each embedded system will be set by this api in driver.
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