Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 12:32:16 EST


> But you haven't followed the discussion: I disagree about the kernel
> trying to parse the damn commands, because I don't think that the kernel
> can (or should) know about all vendor-specific commands and whether they
> are "evil" or not.

I got that bit. I think everyone sane agrees on that one

> If somebody sends me a patch to change CAP_SYS_ADMIN into CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
> I'll apply it in a jiffy.

I'll fix 2.2

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