Just winding back this discussion briefly: > 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 missed a key part of this paragraph before. You say that the whole point is that unprivileged userspace applications can use RDMA directly?
If that's the case, should these devices not simply have -rw-rw-rw permissions (like /dev/net/tun, /dev/fuse, etc.) so that all userspace applications can use them? -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
