Attachment 25567 Details for Bug 43678 – pciconf.8.patch

[patch] pciconf.8.patch

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>Index: pciconf.8
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pciconf/pciconf.8,v
>retrieving revision 1.22
>diff -u -r1.22 pciconf.8
>--- pciconf.8	2002/09/17 18:10:39	1.22
>+++ pciconf.8	2002/11/24 01:30:28
>@@ -108,11 +108,10 @@
> device, which contains several (similar or independent) functions on
> one chip.
> .Pp
>-The
>-.Fl l
>-option is the only one available to non-root users.
>-All other invocations of
>+All invocations of
> .Nm
>+except for
>+.Fl l
> require a
> .Ar selector
> of the form
>@@ -163,6 +162,13 @@
> .Fl h
> indicates a halfword (two-byte) operation.  The default is to read or
> write a longword (four bytes).
>+.Pp
>+.Sh NOTE
>+.Nm
>+is limited to users with right access to
>+.Em /dev/pci ,
>+usually
>+.Em root .
> .Sh ENVIRONMENT
> The PCI vendor/device information database is normally read from
> .Pa /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors .
>@@ -170,7 +176,8 @@
> .Ev PCICONF_VENDOR_DATABASE .
> .Sh SEE ALSO
> .Xr ioctl 2 ,
>-.\" .Xr pci 4 ,
>+.Xr pci 4 ,
>+.Xr devinfo 8 ,
> .Xr kldload 8
> .Sh HISTORY
> The
>@@ -200,15 +207,3 @@
> .Nm ,
> but not in the underlying
> .Xr ioctl 2 .
>-.Pp
>-It might be useful to give non-root users access to the
>-.Fl a
>-and
>-.Fl r
>-options.
>-But only root will be able to execute a
>-.Nm kldload
>-to provide the device with a driver KLD, and reading of configuration space
>-registers may cause a failure in badly designed
>-.Tn PCI
>-chips.

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