From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:56:47 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:26013 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:56:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1790FB.82FC9251@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:56:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Bogdan Costescu , Pete Zaitcev , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is > > quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this > > would be a good idea in general. > Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at the moment. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft |