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Re: Removal of some KAUTH_GENERIC_ISSUSER (pass 1)



elad%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Izumi Tsutsui 
> <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Because "CMOS" is a historical PC specific terminology
> > which means non volatile memory chip (with battery), and
> > I guess that machdep KAUTH may be used on other ports
> > which don't call it CMOS.
> 
> Okay, I'll change it.
> 
> Could you give an example for other ports that may use it? it might be
> that some are miscategorized (perhaps as KAUTH_MACHDEP_UNMANAGEDMEM) or
> missing.

sys/arch/prep/pnpbus/nvram_pnpbus.c
sys/arch/sparc/sparc/openprom.c
sys/arch/sun3/dev/mem.c
sys/dev/ofw/openfirmio.c
etc? 

I'm not sure if they should have the same semantics with
i386/isa/cmos.c, though..
---
Izumi Tsutsui


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