linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] PCI/sysfs: Change read permissions for VPD attributes

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Message-ID: <87c90b88-ea56-4b72-92f9-704cca28ae98@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:59:26 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Ariel Almog <ariela@...dia.com>,
	Aditya Prabhune <aprabhune@...dia.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Arun Easi <aeasi@...vell.com>, Jonathan Chocron <jonnyc@...zon.com>,
	Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>,
	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] PCI/sysfs: Change read permissions for VPD attributes

> Chmod solution is something that I thought, but for now I'm looking
> for the out of the box solution. Chmod still require from
> administrator to run scripts with root permissions.

It is more likely to be a udev rule. systemd already has lots of
examples:

/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:KERNEL=="rfkill", MODE="0664"

	Andrew