On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 16:22 +0000, Roland Dreier wrote: > D-Bus/PolicyKit seems very much overengineered and too complex for this > issue, and it doesn't fit the model of RDMA very well anyway, since the > whole point of RDMA is that unprivileged userspace applications use RDMA > hardware directly without the overhead of a system call into the kernel, > let alone a D-Bus method call to another process. > I don't agree.
Adding a PolicyKit authorization to use RDMA devices is not practically any harder than adding a group; in fact, maintenance-wise it's substantially easier. HAL may then be used to apply an ACL to the devices automatically if you want raw library aaccess. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu is missing /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm group ownership udev rule https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
