Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:22:22AM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
>  > My reasoning here was that the info is of limited use if you are
>  > non-root anyways - thinking how you can't for example get the disklabel
>  > for a device unless you have read access to it.  At first glance, there
>  > doesn't appear to be an ioctl to get the configuration...
> 
> Not true.  Think `operator'.

The ccd devices are read-operator, just like disk devices.  This is why
I thought an ioctl might be more appropriate for getting config info.

Simon.