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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:57:49 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        bsd@lordcow.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com
Subject:   Re: MSIX failure
Message-ID:  <201009100757.49777.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4c89d653.UyUz1Sv9zPckJnig%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <AANLkTikvd09fw3fUhxsXDhMoWE-kvMoPjXPSTfzYY73T@mail.gmail.com> <20100909150012.GA27370@lordcow.org> <4c89d653.UyUz1Sv9zPckJnig%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Friday, September 10, 2010 2:55:15 am perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Gareth de Vaux <bsd@lordcow.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu 2010-09-09 (16:54), Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > > -c asks for pci device capabilities, which are read in
> > > 
> > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pciconf/pciconf.c:177 with O_RDWR
> >
> > Ah. I'll have to schedule a reboot then ..
> 
> or hack on pciconf.c to not request more permission than it needs.
> It is arguably a bug to open O_RDWR when only examining things.

You have to have RDWR permission to issue the ioctl to read config
registers which pciconf does when examining capabilities.

-- 
John Baldwin



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