Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [-mm] ACPI: export ACPI events via netlink

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:24:42 -0400

On Fri, 2007-29-06 at 15:15 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

>  (1) register group X with non-root
>  (2) non-root app A binds group X
>  (3) kernel unregisters group X
Kernel sends event (controller) "Group X is gone" or "family Y which
used to own group X is gone"

>  (4) something else in kernel reregisters group ID X but root-only
> -> non-root app A is bound to root-only group X

Kernel (controller genetlink) sends event for that too.

cheers,
jamal