Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761508AbXEOQmM (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 12:42:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759048AbXEOQlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 12:41:51 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:33916 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758688AbXEOQlu (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 12:41:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:45:33 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Vasily Averin Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , devel@openvz.org, Markus Lidel Subject: Re: [patch i2o 5/6] i2o_proc files permission Message-ID: <20070515174533.1caf24bb@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <4649ABC9.6020605@sw.ru> References: <4649AA6C.2080808@sw.ru> <4649ABC9.6020605@sw.ru> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 18 On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:47:05 +0400 Vasily Averin wrote: > Reading from some i2o related proc files can lead to the i2o controller hang due > unknown reasons. As a workaround this patch changes the permission of these > files to root-only accessible. I guess you have a crap controller in this case. This isn't the right fix: Detect your specific buggy control and do not register the problem /proc nodes for it at all. 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/