Re: [PATCH] mtrr: s/suser/capable/

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 07:05:15 EST

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> > RAWIO is about hardware level access not Stephens O_DIRECT stuff
>
> So why is /proc/kcore access SYS_RAWIO then ?

You can tamper with arbitary memory via it in theory

> And why is nvram access not SYS_RAWIO ?

You cant make the nvram tamper with arbitary memory

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