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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst index 678c9c60b5a3..13c5acb72d63 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst @@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ the desired value must be written, note that strings which are not a number are interpreted as 0! For more on how written strings are interpreted see the "sysfs attribute writes interpretation" section at the end of this file. +Attribute access +---------------- + +Hardware monitoring sysfs attributes are displayed by unrestricted userspace +applications. For this reason, all standard ABI attributes shall be world +readable. Writeable standard ABI attributes shall be writeable only for +privileged users. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= =========================================== |