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    hwmon: Clarify scope of attribute access · e1576396
    Guenter Roeck authored
    Hardware monitoring sysfs attributes are used and displayed by unrestricted
    userspace applications. Standard attributes therefore have to be world
    readable, since otherwise those userspace applications would either have
    to run as super-user or display an error. None of those makes sense.
    Clarify the expected scope of attribute access in the ABI document.
    
    Cc: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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