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driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents 

Users can read sysfs files, there is no reason they should not be
allowed to listen to uevents.  This lets xorg and other userspace
programs properly get these messages without having to be root.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers 2009-04-03 19:04:15 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit d094cbe998
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@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static int __init kobject_uevent_init(void)
"kobject_uevent: unable to create netlink socket!\n");
return -ENODEV;
}
netlink_set_nonroot(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, NL_NONROOT_RECV);
return 0;
}