Commit d094cbe9 authored Apr 03, 2009 by Kay Sievers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Apr 16, 2009

driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents



Users can read sysfs files, there is no reason they should not be
allowed to listen to uevents.  This lets xorg and other userspace
programs properly get these messages without having to be root.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent 5247aecf

lib/kobject_uevent.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static int __init kobject_uevent_init(void)
		"kobject_uevent: unable to create netlink socket!\n");
		return -ENODEV;
		}

		netlink_set_nonroot(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, NL_NONROOT_RECV);
		return 0;
		}

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