Re: 53C8XX /sys/devices/pci*/*/config revisited

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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:26:55PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > if hal reads more than 64 bytes of config space (heck if it reads config
> > space at all) then it's terminally broken.
> 
> this brings up a bug in the kernel though....
> the config file is user readable! That's just plain dangerous and imo it
> should be a root-only file as a result.

No, it's safe (or it should be), just like /proc/bus/pci is readable by
anyone for libpci.

thanks,

greg k-h
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