On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:11:10AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
With subfs the kernel triggered the actual file system mounting as the user id that accessed the device. You won't be able to do that with some HAL triggered automatism. Never - but you won't be able to do something like that with the functionality the linux kernel provides either. And as subfs will never be upstream, it was decided to drop it.
Thanks for explaining the reason why it was dropped. Such an expanation is what I would expect in the first place when a decission of a change is announced because I consider it quite annoying if decissions to change something are announced without the reasons that lead to that decission. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."