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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:13:42 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7
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Hi

> Under more restricted domains, root cannot bit-bang the interface. 
>  s/CAP_SYS_RAWIO/CAP_DEVICE_CMD/ for the raw cmd ioctl interface.  Have 

Nobody uses capabilities these days, right?

> The filter is useful for other reasons like correctness, as well.

If you want to test if it works, you just disallow that access altogether.
It is usually not needed , anyway.
								Pavel
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