linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] selftests/mm: Drop unnecessary sudo usage

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Message-ID: <ac08af0d-9cb8-4da4-ab9e-736a572b8f6b@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:56:45 +0530
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] selftests/mm: Drop unnecessary sudo usage



On 28/02/25 10:24 pm, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> This script must be run as root anyway (see all the writing to
> privileged files in /proc etc).
> 
> Remove the unnecessary use of sudo to avoid breaking on single-user
> systems that don't have sudo. This also avoids confusing readers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>