Re: [PATCH] mtrr: s/suser/capable/

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 07:26:09 EDT

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:11:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > These cases in mtrr.c are clearly CAP_SYS_RAWIO.
> >
> > Clearly? How do MTRR changes relate to rawio ?
>
> RAWIO is about hardware level access not Stephens O_DIRECT stuff

So why is /proc/kcore access SYS_RAWIO then ?

And why is nvram access not SYS_RAWIO ?

-Andi
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