> Why not just put some bitmap pointer into the pci device
> struct. If it is non-NULL, it specifies PCI config space
> areas which have side-effects.
Why not avoid poking around in dangerous device spaces. We don't have a
bitmap to protect /dev/mem either. The problem is similar too, we have many
devices with config space beyond the guaranteed bytes that do fatal
things that are not driven directly by Linux - eg some bridges have acpi
stuff overlapping there.
A non root user can only touch the safe bytes
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