From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:04:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d094cbe998eb566d47552aa9d3c26c9123a7b858;p=linux-beck.git

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>
---

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index dafeecf5b143..920a3ca6e259 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -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;
 }