[systemd-devel] 70-uaccess.rules: add new ID_SDR_HW?

Kay Sievers kay at vrfy.org
Tue Jul 15 08:39:08 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Alick Zhao <alick9188 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 04:10 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:

>>> So maybe ID_SOFTWARE_RADIO ?
>>
>> Hmm, SDR is more a term for a generic technology than for a device
>> class. To me it does not really sound like an administrator would know
>> what this is.
>>
>> What exactly is the device or subsystem you want to make accessible to
>> locally logged-in users only?
>
> Initially it is bladeRF, but many more are of interest: USRP, rtl-sdr,
> HackRF, ... [1]
>
> I agree an administrator might not know what SDR is, since it is
> currently still not widely known, and makes sense only for amateurs
> and researchers. But as a SDR fan, I see many new SDR peripherals
> are created recently, and expect to see more. So a generic ID seems
> reasonable to me.

Added it:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=30632d97d9d68c8202e562f34afae8f8d6e9c377

Thanks,
Kay


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