Re: [PATCH] remove need for root to run DRM

[Ian R. <id...@us...>]

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Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 8/3/05, Dave Airlie <ai...@li...> wrote:
> 
>>I'm not over-the-moon about this approach of changing the system to be
>>default allow anything and adding root checks, I'd rather it was default
>>root check and overrideable to allow non-root...
> 
> I started off that way but then I figured out that very few ioctl need
> to require root. That would require adding about 70 root checks and
> then turning around and eliminating most of them immediately since
> mesa uses almost all of the ioctls (indirect is the only exception I
> know of) We can get the same effect just by inspecting the list of
> ioctls.

The difference being that you can incrementally remove root-checks
without compromising the system.  The same cannot be said for
incrementally adding them.
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