Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266616AbUIENC4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:02:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266622AbUIENC4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:02:56 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:14491 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266616AbUIENCz (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:02:55 -0400 Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design From: Alan Cox To: Dave Airlie Cc: Lee Revell , Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , Keith Whitwell , Jon Smirl , DRI Devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20040904004424.93643.qmail@web14921.mail.yahoo.com> <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <41398EBD.2040900@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904104834.B13362@infradead.org> <413997A7.9060406@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904112535.A13750@infradead.org> <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904120352.B14037@infradead.org> <20040904114243.GC2785@redhat.com> <1094333738.6575.393.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094385611.1081.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:00:18 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 22 On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 23:06, Dave Airlie wrote: > we also have out of kernel DRM drivers for mach64 and savage that would > pose security issues if shipped, so we can't develop them in-kernel.... > (another reason for the CVS tree)... I still think this is actually a bad decision. You can develop them in kernel providing you put if(!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) return -EPERM in the client side open for these devices. At that point root can use it happily but nobody else can. You can test it, you can share it upstream and you can motivate people to fix it. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/