From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.0-test3] i386 cpuid.c devfs support 2/2
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:14:52 +0400
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On Sunday 10 August 2003 17:59, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:52:26PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>  > the same question about default permissions as for msr.c; the same
>  > problem with module unload.
>
> cpuid is less harmful than msr, but it's possible some admins may not
> want their users being able to read things like CPU serial numbers
> (if enabled).
>

should it be 400 or 440 by default? Microcode sets permissions to 640.

-andrey
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