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doxy: PCI discovery isn't root-only on Linux >= 4.13
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Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
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bgoglin committed Jul 6, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -1502,9 +1502,6 @@ Indeed this OpenFabrics HCA PCI device object contains one
one OpenFabrics software device (<em>mlx4_0</em>) and two virtual
network interface software devices (<em>ib0</em> and <em>ib1</em>).

PCI link speed is also reported for some bridges and devices
because lstopo was privileged when it discovered the topology.


Here is the corresponding textual output:

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hwloc discovers the topology by querying the operating system.
Some minor features may require privileged access to the operation
system.
For instance memory module and PCI link speed discovery on Linux
is reserved to root,
For instance memory module discovery on Linux is reserved to root,
and the entire PCI discovery on Solaris and BSDs requires access to
some special files that are usually restricted to root
(/dev/pci* or /devices/pci*).
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