Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:31:15 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Direct access to hardware |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, James Sutherland wrote: > > > The proper interface will allow the very small handful of utilities which > > need to bypass these checks (to update firmware or whatever) to do so, > > while preventing other access. > > The proper interface... You mean like the nice clean interface > we currently have that will just be cluttered up by these attempts to > filter it?
There is NOTHING "nice [and] clean" about the current abomination of "do everything in userland, however stupid". In the long term, it won't be "cluttered up", it will be removed and replaced by a sane interface which doesn't require the keys to the universe just to change the drive powersave settings.
James.
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