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From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Subject: The controlD device
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:06:30 +0200
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Dave,

What is the drm control device nodes really used for?

On my fc14 system it seems like it has world rw privileges, and full 
access to all modesetting ioctls.
Is that the intention?

/Thomas