Re: SYSFS "errors"

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:06:26PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:46:40AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

quoted

Ah, now I see what you're meaning. That would require to dynamically
create a per-mci DEVICE_ATTR().

Dude, look at the code, we do that already. And you're using it with
dev_attr_sdram_scrub_rate.

Simply change the permissions of the attribute before calling
device_create_file.

pseudo:

	umode_t mode = 0;

	if (mci->set...)
		mode |= S_IWUSR;

	if (mci->get...)
		mode |= S_IRUGO;


	dev_attr_sdram_scrub_rate.attr.mode = mode;

	device_create_file(&mci->dev, &dev_attr_sdram_scrub_rate);

quoted

No, on both cases, open() will return an error (-ENOENT against -EPERM).

What if it is a shell script doing:

cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/sdram_scrub_rate

what's the problem with that ?

$ cat /path/to/file/that/doesnt/exist.txt
cat: /path/to/file/that/doesnt/exist.txt: No such file or directory

Didn't see any gates to hell opening here...

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balbi