linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Block on access to temporarily unavailable pci device [version 3]

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20061019235149.GA5343@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:51:49 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Adam Belay <abelay@....EDU>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-pm@...ts.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Block on access to temporarily unavailable pci device [version 3]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:13:56PM -0400, Adam Belay wrote:
> It would be nice if we had sysfs expose struct file at some point... :)

No it would not.  I have yet to see a valid reason why to do this
(everyone would be abusing sysfs even worse if it was present, you
should see some of the requests I've had over the years...)

thanks,

greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/