Re: why does mtrr use suser() and not capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)?

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@ocston.org)
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:17:20 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> So I'd rather that MTRR was left alone until the house of capabilities
> is cleaned up.
>
Sorry Richard, but I was fiddling with mtrr.c for P6 ucode stuff so I
couldn't stand the temptation to cleanup the suser->capable bits. However,
if you feel strongly about it, surely Linus can ignore that part of my
patch :)

Regards,
Tigran.

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