Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:52:16 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: gurney_j@efn.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make /dev/pci really readable Message-ID: <20030616.225216.115910026.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030616074122.GF73854@funkthat.com> References: <20030616074122.GF73854@funkthat.com>
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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@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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