Bug 70665

Summary: /dev/uinput belongs to subsystem misc, not input
Product: systemd Reporter: Göran Uddeborg <goeran>
Component: generalAssignee: systemd-bugs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: systemd-bugs
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Göran Uddeborg 2013-10-20 10:38:55 UTC 
In /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules there is a rule that says

  SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="ts[0-9]*|uinput", MODE="0640"

Still, my /dev/uinput shows up with mode 0600.  After some confusion on my part, I found this Gentoo thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-951834-start-0.html which explains that uinput belongs to the subsystem "misc" rather than "input".  Testing the udevadm command suggested in the thread, that is equally true on my Fedora system, as expected.

From what I can understand, this is a bug in the udev rules file.  And that file belongs to the systemd package (systemd-208-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm), why I guess this is the correct place to report.
Comment 1 Kay Sievers 2013-10-21 01:54:49 UTC 
Right, the rules make no sense.

I removed them:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=d1f0e886e1407ab50834127ce52710e1aff13938

See the above commit for some details. Thanks!

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