Comment 19 for bug 256216
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote | #19 |
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Just winding back this discussion briefly:
> D-Bus/PolicyKit seems very much overengineered and too complex for this issue, and it doesn't fit the model of
> RDMA very well anyway, since the whole point of RDMA is that unprivileged userspace applications use RDMA
> hardware directly without the overhead of a system call into the kernel, let alone a D-Bus method call to another
> process.
>
I missed a key part of this paragraph before. You say that the whole point is that unprivileged userspace applications can use RDMA directly?
If that's the case, should these devices not simply have -rw-rw-rw permissions (like /dev/net/tun, /dev/fuse, etc.) so that all userspace applications can use them?