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From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	hg197@gmx.de, "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" <cpufreq@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cpufreq: Change sysfs interface cpuinfo_cur_freq access privilege
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:33:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5292E133.1040800@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohponvz8CjDpMbx=BXpBv5q8d4x94No90sJWjVsTRS_Uj1jw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2013年11月25日 12:30, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 25 November 2013 08:23, Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> wrote:
>> Currently, cpuinfo_cur_freq is only accessible for root user while
>> other cpufreq sysfs interfaces(E,G scaling_cur_freq) are available
>> to ordinary user. This seems make no sense. This patch is to change
>> it.
> 
> There is nothing wrong with the code and so this is more of a design
> change..
> 
> Probably Rafael can help us here as cpufreq_cur_freq will read stuff
> directly from hardware instead of using cached value in software.

I think so, too. I also tried to checking the reason of the privilege by
git log but the code was there before linux kernel being migrated to git
repository.

> 
> --
> viresh
> 


-- 
Best regards
Tianyu Lan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-25  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25  2:53 [PATCH] Cpufreq: Change sysfs interface cpuinfo_cur_freq access privilege Lan Tianyu
2013-11-25  4:30 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-11-25  5:33   ` Lan Tianyu [this message]
2013-11-25 11:26     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-25 11:55       ` Lan Tianyu
2013-11-25 12:14         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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