Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/secmodel/bsd44
To: None <elad@NetBSD.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/30/2006 08:51:03
> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> >>> and, if possible, the acutal user request (eg. mly_user_command).
> >> I assume mly_user_command is a kauth(9) enum? (like KAUTH_REQ_DEVICE_..)
> >> if yes, do we care about 3rd-party device drivers that can use such
> >> requests? in such cases we don't have the actual user request.
> > 
> > i meant to pass a driver-specific structure via void *.
> > bsd44 listeners will just ignore it.
> > a listener can investigate the arg only when it knows the driver.
> 
> okay. we have kauth_authorize_device_tty(). do you want to add a
> kauth_authorize_device() or a different routine? if so, any preference
> for a prototype?
> 
> -e.
> 
> -- 
> Elad Efrat

i personally prefer everything typed as far as possible.

int kauth_authorize_device_passthrough(kauth_cred_t cred, dev_t controller,
    const void *user_request);

btw, isn't it better to move RAWIO to the device scope?

YAMAMOTO Takashi