Re: [PATCH] debugfs: use specified mode to possibly mark filesread/write only

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:00:47AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> From: Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In many SoC implementations there are hardware registers can be read or
> write only.  This extends the debugfs to enforce the file permissions for
> these types of registers by providing a set of fops which are read or
> write only.  This assumes that the kernel developer knows more about the
> hardware than the user (even root users) -- which is normally true.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> you mention debugfs header file changes, but i don't see what would need
> changing ?  the mode checking is all done internally ...

Looks good to me.

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