From 8f8fb5044e90f60e065c5bbceba21aab2986edd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:59:53 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] udev: assign group "input" to all input devices

(cherry picked from commit 3dff3e00e044e2d53c76fa842b9a4759d4a50e69)

---

 NEWS                        | 6 ++++++

 README                      | 2 +-

 rules/50-udev-default.rules | 1 +

 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS

index 4f3c5222..318f3d49 100644

--- a/NEWS

+++ b/NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@

 systemd System and Service Manager

+CHANGES WITH 215:

+        * A new system group "input" is introduced, all input

+          device nodes get this group assigned. This is useful for

+          system-level software to get access to input devices. It

+          complements what is already done for "audio" and "video".

+

 CHANGES WITH 214:

         * As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the

diff --git a/README b/README

index 529c6e19..de159feb 100644

--- a/README

+++ b/README

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ USERS AND GROUPS:

         even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases

         and network are available:

-        tty, dialout, kmem, video, audio, lp, cdrom, tape, disk

+        audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, lp, tape, tty, video

         During runtime, the journal daemon requires the

         "systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will

diff --git a/rules/50-udev-default.rules b/rules/50-udev-default.rules

index 122d07c9..1ecd47a2 100644

--- a/rules/50-udev-default.rules

+++ b/rules/50-udev-default.rules

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*", GROUP=

 SUBSYSTEM=="mem", KERNEL=="mem|kmem|port", GROUP="kmem", MODE="0640"

+SUBSYSTEM=="input", GROUP="input"

 SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="js[0-9]*", MODE="0664"

 SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", GROUP="video"