From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:54:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:54:17 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:4103 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:54:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:51:49 +0100 (BST) Cc: bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Bogdan Costescu), zaitcev@redhat.com (Pete Zaitcev), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <3B17889F.3118A564@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Jun 01, 2001 08:20:47 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is > quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this > would be a good idea in general. Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached