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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:52:16 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        gurney_j@efn.org
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make /dev/pci really readable
Message-ID:  <20030616.225216.115910026.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030616074122.GF73854@funkthat.com>
References:  <20030616074122.GF73854@funkthat.com>

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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.

You can get the same information that pciconf -l does by going through
the alternative interface of devinfo.

Warner



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