[PATCH] libmbim-glib,proxy: add a configure flag to set the UID of MBIM proxy

Prathmesh Prabhu Chromium pprabhu at chromium.org
Wed Nov 5 14:13:06 PST 2014


We'd decided on compile time options for the reason Aleksander stated:
You'd need udev rules to chown the devices that should be owned by the
special user.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Aleksander Morgado <
aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'd rather have this be a runtime option that takes a username/group
> > (which seems to be a much more common pattern than compile-time).
> > However, given that the proxy is spawned rather than started by the
> > initsystem, I guess that would require a config file?
>
> Yeah... I don't really think having a compile time option is a big
> deal; especially since the next step is to ship ourselves udev rules
> in libqmi to chown to the specific user the /dev/cdc-wdm QMI devices.
>
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