Re: [PATCH] [RFC] qla2xxx: Change parameter permissions in sysfs

From: Sonny Rao
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 14:51:46 EST


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:33:12AM -0800, Joe Carnuccio wrote:
> Sonny,
>
> The qla2xxx parameters that already had write permission do not require rebinding.
>
> The qla2xxx parameters that require rebinding have read only permission and do not require write persmission since these are the ones whose value can be set on driver load.
>
> The fact that some of the qla2xxx parameters had permission set to S_IRUGO|S_IRUSR was a "typo", it should have been S_IRUGO only, I have been in the process of addressing this in our drivers (here at QLogic).
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Joe

Ok thanks for clearing that up

Sonny
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