[PATCH 03/10] driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>

Users can read sysfs files, there is no reason they should not be
allowed to listen to uevents.  This lets xorg and other userspace
programs properly get these messages without having to be root.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
 lib/kobject_uevent.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index dafeecf..920a3ca 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static int __init kobject_uevent_init(void)
 		       "kobject_uevent: unable to create netlink socket!\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
-
+	netlink_set_nonroot(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, NL_NONROOT_RECV);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.2

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