Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:06:53 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
       Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
       "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:20:39PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Linus has requested that the sysfs rom attribute be changed to require
> enabling before it works. echo "0" to the attribute to disable,
> echoing anything else enables the rom output. The concern is that
> something like a file browser could inadvertently read the attribute
> and change the state of the hardware without the user's knowledge.
> 
> The attached patch includes the previous patch plus the enabling logic.


Applied, thanks.

greg k-h

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