[Spice-devel] [PATCH] usbredir: fix redirection of user-accesible device nodes.

'Christophe Fergeau' cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon Jun 29 08:01:23 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:52:31PM +0200, Suchánek Michal wrote:
> Or the other way around compiling in policykit support *should not
> disable* access to already accessible devices.

We agree on that, and the log of the commit you revert also agrees
« So this patch changes things to first call the helper and only then
try to open the device node. »


> It's indeed the case. However, this is merely a cosmetic issue while
> the fix for the cosmetic issue causes a functional error.

But to fix your issue, you don't have to reintroduce this cosmetic
issue, you could just make sure we try to directly open the USB device
if the policykit call failed.

Christophe
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