Re: [PATCH] mtrr: s/suser/capable/

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> -    if ( !suser () ) return -EPERM;
> +    if ( !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ) return -EPERM;

no, it should be CAP_SYS_RAWIO. I thought that is the convention for
accessing chipset-specific io features. E.g. see
arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c.

Regards,
Tigran

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