On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Thomas Voegtle wrote:

> we noticed that only root can enter /proc/tty/driver/, which appears to be 
> wrong, because the files therein are actually world readable...

I found out why this was done:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.29

Chris Wright:
  o /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact number of characters used
in serial links (CAN-2003-0461)


So, please ignore this patch I sent.

      Thomas

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