make /dev/pci really readable

[John-Mark Gurney]

M. Warner Losh wrote this message on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 22:52 -0600:
> 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.

I'm not talking about -r... and anyways, I have fixed part of the
problem with unaligned reads/writes which has been posted to this
thread already....

> You can get the same information that pciconf -l does by going through
> the alternative interface of devinfo.

So, I hear you proposing to remove pciconf and the /dev/pci interface?

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