John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, September 10, 2010 2:55:15 am [email protected] wrote: > > ... > > It is arguably a bug to open O_RDWR when only examining things. > > You have to have RDWR permission to issue the ioctl to read config > registers which pciconf does when examining capabilities.
So much for avoiding a reboot for <[email protected]> (or whatever the correct address is -- that one bounced), but now it is beginning to look as if there may be a POLA violation at a lower level. Unless there are devices out there whose state can be changed by merely _reading_ (not writing) their configuration registers, I would not expect to need RDWR permission just to read them. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
