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hwmon: Clarify scope of attribute access
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:59:48 +0000 (10:59 -0700)
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:50:14 +0000 (06:50 -0700)
commite1576396a7a0c1657326ec20ca50599bdc4def0d
tree18db8b29399c5902c3c4b48aa590993224556636tree | snapshot
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hwmon: Clarify scope of attribute access

Hardware monitoring sysfs attributes are used and displayed by unrestricted
userspace applications. Standard attributes therefore have to be world
readable, since otherwise those userspace applications would either have
to run as super-user or display an error. None of those makes sense.
Clarify the expected scope of attribute access in the ABI document.

Cc: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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