make /dev/pci really readable
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jun 16 21:52:54 PDT 2003
In message: <20030616074122.GF73854 at funkthat.com>
John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at efn.org> writes:
: Does anyone have an objection to making /dev/pci really honor the
: permissions, and giving normal users (or just group wheel) premission
: to run pciconf -l. Right now the code requires the write bit set for
: any operation.
Yes. That's too dangerous and will panic a machine.
You can get the same information that pciconf -l does by going through
the alternative interface of devinfo.
Warner
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