Re: [PATCH] hwmon: amd_energy: modify the visibility of the counters

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On 11/12/20 9:21 AM, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
> This patch limits the visibility to owner and groups only for the
> energy counters exposed through the hwmon based amd_energy driver.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@xxxxxxx>

This is very unusual, and may mess up the "sensors" command.
What problem is this trying to solve ?

Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c b/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
> index d06597303d5a..3197cda7bcd9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static umode_t amd_energy_is_visible(const void *_data,
>  				     enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
>  				     u32 attr, int channel)
>  {
> -	return 0444;
> +	return 0440;
>  }
>  
>  static int energy_accumulator(void *p)
> 




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