Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware | From | Tyrel Datwyler <> | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:27:36 -0800 |
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On 1/5/22 5:36 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com> writes: >> On 1/5/22 3:19 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote: >>> >> >> Is there benefit of adding a partition_name field/value pair to lparcfg? The >> lparstat utility can just as easily make the get_sysparm call via librtas. >> Further, rtas_filters allows this particular RTAS call from userspace. > > The RTAS syscall is root-only, but we want the partition name (whether > supplied by RTAS or the device tree) to be available to unprivileged > programs. >
Ah, right. I recall this discussion now from previous iterations.
-Tyrel
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