From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
To: Joe Carnuccio <joe.carnuccio@qlogic.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@qlogic.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] qla2xxx: Change parameter permissions in sysfs
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:51:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118195117.GQ32203@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E4F49720D0BAD499EE1F01232234BA872242EF99D@AVEXMB1.qlogic.org>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-18 11:05 Sonny Rao
2010-11-18 19:33 ` Joe Carnuccio
2010-11-18 19:51 ` Sonny Rao [this message]
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