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From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:32:54 +0930
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] powerpc/powernv: Add support for POWER8 split core on
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Hi Mikey,

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> wrote:
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(subcores_per_core, 0600,
> +               show_subcores_per_core, store_subcores_per_core);

Can we make this 644, so users can query the state of the system
without being root? This is useful for tools like ppc64_cpu --info.

Cheers,

Joel