From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:44:24 +0200 > 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. Look, there is even precedence for my decision. We removed /proc/openprom exactly for the reasons I am giving for not doing things that way. -- 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
