SuperUser permission for the Driver??

[Deepak Saxena]

On Jun 24 2008, at 17:35, shivaprasad javali was caught saying:
> Hi,
> 
>       I have USB devices (not storage devices, just some usb devices), which
> I can use along with my application on the olpc. The driver for these USB
> devices are third paty drivers so I have to detach the kernel usb driver so
> that I can use my own driver for that USB device. For this I need to have
> super user privileges while running my application.
> 
>      I am new to programming on Linux. Could anybody point me as to how I
> can give superuser privileges to my driver code.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Su

I am not completely sure I grok what you need. Are you trying to load
a driver via insmod or run some installer for the driver?  Note that 
until two days ago, the USB driver was built into to the kernel, so
you can't unload it. What specific device and driver is this?

~Deepak

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Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at laptop.org>