> What was the reason for making this design choice? While I could > certainly provide boot scripts to change the permissions to > /dev/infiniband/umad*, I'd rather understand why the decision was made > to restrict access.
because /dev/infiniband/umadX allows full unfiltered access to send/receive any MADs. Including changing routing tables, bringing ports down, etc. Not stuff that unprivileged users should be able to do. It would make sense to have a higher-level interface that only allows safe queries without side effects, but that's quite a bit more work than just changing permissions on device nodes. - R. _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
