Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 20:26:49 EST


On Tue, 02 May 2006 18:19:14 MDT, Matthew Wilcox said:

> I suppose SELinux might be able to help, but I don't care to get into
> that discussion here ;-)

The RedHat patch splatting most of /dev/mem would help more than SELinux would.
(Of course, that assumes that the offending address space is someplace that
X doesn't actually need itself, and that the patch blocks access to....)

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