biosdevname v0.3.4

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Fri Dec 17 17:14:59 UTC 2010


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 07:16:56AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:57:35PM +0800, Simon Yan wrote:
> > This is neat, thanks for the effort.
> > Just tried it and works great.
> > 
> > One suggestion, can you add the logic if the program is not executed
> > by root it exits with a non-0 value and print out a warning message?
> 
> That's a good idea for now.  Ideally we would expose all the necessary
> bits in sysfs so it wouldn't need to be root (right now it reads
> /dev/mem), but enough bits are missing from sysfs today that it isn't
> feasible.

Patch is in upstream now, will be in the next release.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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