Bug#926886: Please mention video->render change in udev.NEWS

[Michael Biebl]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:47:39 +0200 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?=
<agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:27:05PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 11.04.2019 um 22:47 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > > Am 11.04.19 um 21:46 schrieb Guido Günther:
> > 
> > >> it took me a while to figure out why rendering got broken in my wayland
> > >> compositor. It would be great if the change from video to render group
> > >> could be mentioned in udev.NEWS.
> > > 
> > > That is unexpected.
> > > We still apply the uaccess tag for /dev/dri/renderD* so should be
> > > accessible to local, active sessions (including a wayland session)
> > > 
> > 
> > Btw, what exactly was the breakage?
> 
> Rendering got corrupted since the compositor could not open the render
> node but used /dev/card1.
> 
> > I assume you worked around that for now by adding your user to group
> > render?
> > Which wayland compositor is that, btw? How do you start it?
> 
> It's a wlroots based compositor started by a systemd unit¹ and the /dev
> tmpfs has currently no ACLs (due to
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9674) so the uaccess rules
> don't apply here. So while I think that uaccess is way more common
> (otherwise I'd picked up a way higher severity for the bug) changing
> groups of devices might merit a clear warning.


Hm, I'm a bit undecided. This seems like a very special setup you have
there and a NEWS entry is shown to basically every user.
If it was a more common issue, I would totally agree with you.

Martin, Marco, what's your take on this?

Regards,
Michael
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