[grsec] hotplug cannot upload firmware

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Brad,

>>Hello, 
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>>I have a network card that needs a firmware uploaded
>>duing ifconfig eth0 up. But with kenel 2.6.7 and grsec
>>2.0.1 I could not get this to work. I always get the
>>following error: 
>>
>>grsec: (:::kernel::::S:/) denied open of /sys/class/firmware/0000:02:00.0 
>>/loading for writing by /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent[firmware.agent:1856] 
>>uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent /sbin/hotplug[hotplug:4505] uid/euid:0/0 
>>gid/egid:0/0 
>>
>>How can I get around this? 
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>I've fixed it in current CVS in a way that will prevent problems like 
>these from happening in the future.
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Thanks. There is also a simiar problem with printk.
Is there a patch that I can apply to the current 2.6.7-2.0.1 version 
just to fix this problem?

Peter

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