linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CPU online file permission

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:38:55 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU online file permission

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:56:46 -0400
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs
> > in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable?
> 
> No sane one which I can think of.  It seems that it originally sprang forth
> from Rusty's keyboard in that form.

Hmm, that seems possible but unlikely.  My original version used proc,
after all.

But either way, fix is good.

Rusty.

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