Re: [patch i2o 5/6] i2o_proc files permission

On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:47:05 +0400
Vasily Averin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Reading from some i2o related proc files can lead to the i2o controller hang due
> unknown reasons. As a workaround this patch changes the permission of these
> files to root-only accessible.

I guess you have a crap controller in this case. 

This isn't the right fix: Detect your specific buggy control and do not
register the problem /proc nodes for it at all.

Alan
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