Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:09:05 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make /dev/pci really readable Message-ID: <20030617050905.GE73854@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030616.225216.115910026.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030616074122.GF73854@funkthat.com> <20030616.225216.115910026.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote this message on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 22:52 -0600:
> In message: <20030616074122.GF73854@funkthat.com>
> John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:
> : Does anyone have an objection to making /dev/pci really honor the
> : permissions, and giving normal users (or just group wheel) premission
> : to run pciconf -l. Right now the code requires the write bit set for
> : any operation.
>
> Yes. That's too dangerous and will panic a machine.
I'm not talking about -r... and anyways, I have fixed part of the
problem with unaligned reads/writes which has been posted to this
thread already....
> You can get the same information that pciconf -l does by going through
> the alternative interface of devinfo.
So, I hear you proposing to remove pciconf and the /dev/pci interface?
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