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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] let mortals use ethtool
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:17:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159474625.3741.6.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060928122514.112a19a8@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:25 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> +	/* Allow some commands to be done by anyone */
> +	switch(ethcmd) {
> +	case ETHTOOL_GSET:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GREGS:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GWOL:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GMSGLVL:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GLINK:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GRINGPARAM:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GPAUSEPARAM:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GRXCSUM:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GTXCSUM:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GSG:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS:
> +	case ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GSTATS:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GTSO:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GUFO:
> +	case ETHTOOL_GGSO:

I'm against letting normal users do ETHTOOL_GREGS and ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID.
Dumping 64K worth of registers and blinking the LEDs should be
restricted.  But I have no problem doing these checks in the driver if
necessary.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28 19:25 [RFC] let mortals use ethtool Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-28 19:53 ` James Morris
2006-09-28 20:43   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 19:56 ` Auke Kok
2006-09-28 21:53   ` David Miller
2006-09-28 22:03     ` Michael Chan
2006-09-28 22:22       ` David Miller
2006-09-28 20:17 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-09-28 20:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 20:32   ` James Morris
2006-09-28 20:35     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 20:39       ` Michael Chan
2006-09-28 22:16     ` David Miller
2006-09-28 22:30       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 22:13   ` David Miller
2006-09-28 22:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 22:33       ` David Miller
2006-09-28 20:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 22:15   ` David Miller
2006-09-28 22:41   ` Stephen Hemminger

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