On 09/19/2017 08:14 PM, David Miller wrote: >> Does it work without root privileges? > > Depends upon what permissions and ownership the administrator decides > to set for /dev/mdesc > > Which is identical to what you would get with sysfs, "file permissions" > > This conversation is going nowhere, can you guys please drop this? It's not going anywhere because you are not open to discussion. You are stuck in your opinion coming from your own personal usecase and refuse to accept that other users have different usecases. > We're not exporting the machine desctription in a second way, period. Not "we", you. You are refusing to make progress and that's frustrating, especially for all the folk from Oracle who are sending in patches all the time. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html