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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU online file permission
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:56:46 -0400
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs
> > in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable?
> 
> No sane one which I can think of.  It seems that it originally sprang forth
> from Rusty's keyboard in that form.

Hmm, that seems possible but unlikely.  My original version used proc,
after all.

But either way, fix is good.

Rusty.