Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:17:20 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, lkml@rtr.ca, abelay@novell.com,
       lenb@kernel.org, mlord@pobox.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree
Message-ID: <20071205111720.GC3864@ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> >It is not known whether Mark is actually writing to this 
> >thing.  Perhaps
> >read-only permissions would be a suitable fix?
> >
> 
> Exporting it as read only should be OK. We also need to know if there
> are hard user space dependency on writing to this from userspace.

Some people are manipulating it from their suspend scripts..

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