>From the "technical" perspective once one open a device we can define which 
>users will have access to that device and what access (read/write control)

You can see WdfControlDeviceInitAllocate.

But I believe that before actually doing changes we should all agree on what we 
are doing.

Thanks
Tzachi

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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Hefty, Sean
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:00 PM
> To: Fab Tillier; Smith, Stan; Leonid Keller; ofw_list
> Subject: Re: [ofw] partial review of mlx4 branch
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> > Might be worth coming up with a list of verbs that should require elevated
> > privileges, vs. those that are open to anyone?  Something like "you must run
> > with elevated privileges to register a MAD service".
> 
> Just restricting access to the MAD layer would be a good start, and may be
> sufficient.  How do you make that check in the kernel?
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