From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754371AbXLGVWE (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:22:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753885AbXLGVV2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:21:28 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1453 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753535AbXLGVVY (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:21:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:17:20 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml@rtr.ca, abelay@novell.com, lenb@kernel.org, mlord@pobox.com, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree Message-ID: <20071205111720.GC3864@ucw.cz> References: <20071130142058.816d1693.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEE2FAEAF@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEE2FAEAF@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >It is not known whether Mark is actually writing to this > >thing. Perhaps > >read-only permissions would be a suitable fix? > > > > Exporting it as read only should be OK. We also need to know if there > are hard user space dependency on writing to this from userspace. Some people are manipulating it from their suspend scripts.. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html