Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:56:27 -0400

Alan Cox wrote:
> > In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is
> > quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this
> > would be a good idea in general.

> Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached

Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers
are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link
partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at
the moment.

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