Console user mount patch and FC3

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Thu Sep 30 18:54:44 UTC 2004


New patch:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=104597&action=view

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 11:59 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> This is in reference to RH bug#133941.  It is suggested I take this
> discussion to fedora-devel.  What is keeping this patch out of FC3?  I
> know it is late in the game but there was a large discussion the past
> week about sane options for allowing mounting of removable devices out
> of the box.  Part of the solution that was agreed upon was this patch.  
> 
> Without this patch we will need to revert back to not allowing the user
> to mount removable devices by default and only allow them the ability to
> turn on this option after install.  I have looked at the patch and it is
> simple and does matching the same way we do it in dbus.  Getting this
> patch in not only means it makes it easier for users to mount their
> media but it also means sane restrictions that would not be there if the
> user was to turn on user mounting of removable devices without the
> patch.  
> 
> So my question is what needs to happen to get this in?  The merits of
> the patch have already been discussed and been brought to a consensus.
> I can say the implementation looks good to me.  Do we need more eyes on
> it?  What else?
> 
> -- 
> John (J5) Palmieri
> Associate Software Engineer
> Desktop Group
> Red Hat, Inc.
> Blog: http://martianrock.com
> 
-- 
John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
Blog: http://martianrock.com




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