On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:17:54PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > IMHO that's the best option for now - if it fixes the specific case of > concern right now. It's a trivial interface, it's trivial security (need > to check CAP_SYS_RAWIO to flip) and it means that the job can be done > properly when there is consensus without a whole extra legacy API stuck > behind.
Oh yeah, fully agreed. We could just set the sysfs file only writeable by root (basically just setting perm to 0644). Would the CAP_SYS_RAWIO distinction matter? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
