Re: kernel module options for cpufreq

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:56 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:16 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > You really don't want to be using
> >> > USERSPACE at all.
> >>
> >> seems like cpufreq-applet uses it....
> >
> > Sure, it shouldn't. If you're using userspace for thermal or latency
> > reasons, then a setuid applet is totally the wrong way to achieve both
> > of these :-)
> 
> its not a setuid applet .. something seems to allow non root to do
> this (hal? consolekit? pam? udev? .. dunno)

It currently uses consolehelper to get root. IMO, it shouldn't allow
setting frequencies at all.