linux-kernel - Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20071205111720.GC3864@ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:17:20 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, lkml@....ca,
	abelay@...ell.com, lenb@...nel.org, mlord@...ox.com, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

Hi!

> >It is not known whether Mark is actually writing to this 
> >thing.  Perhaps
> >read-only permissions would be a suitable fix?
> >
> 
> Exporting it as read only should be OK. We also need to know if there
> are hard user space dependency on writing to this from userspace.

Some people are manipulating it from their suspend scripts..

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