From: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:27:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9df21b5-00fe-f648-4cdb-3d4e7abc855f@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee5lve64.fsf@li-e15d104c-2135-11b2-a85c-d7ef17e56be6.ibm.com>
On 1/5/22 5:36 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com> writes:
>> On 1/5/22 3:19 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Is there benefit of adding a partition_name field/value pair to lparcfg? The
>> lparstat utility can just as easily make the get_sysparm call via librtas.
>> Further, rtas_filters allows this particular RTAS call from userspace.
>
> The RTAS syscall is root-only, but we want the partition name (whether
> supplied by RTAS or the device tree) to be available to unprivileged
> programs.
>
Ah, right. I recall this discussion now from previous iterations.
-Tyrel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-06 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-07 17:11 [PATCH v4] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware Laurent Dufour
2022-01-05 16:13 ` Laurent Dufour
2022-01-05 23:19 ` Nathan Lynch
2022-01-06 1:17 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2022-01-06 1:36 ` Nathan Lynch
2022-01-06 2:27 ` Tyrel Datwyler [this message]
2022-01-06 9:17 ` Laurent Dufour
2022-01-06 23:09 ` Michael Ellerman
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