Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:51:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mtrr: s/suser/capable/ |
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > - if ( !suser () ) return -EPERM; > + if ( !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ) return -EPERM;
no, it should be CAP_SYS_RAWIO. I thought that is the convention for accessing chipset-specific io features. E.g. see arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c.
Regards, Tigran
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