[tesla-dev] powertop and root user

[Li, Aubrey]

Eric.Saxe wrote:

> Alexander Kolbasov wrote:
>> Why does powertop should be run as root? If I have enough
>> privilidges to run dtrace shouldn't I be able to run powertop as
>> well? 
>> 
> Yes, dtrace privileges should be enough.
> 
> -Eric

er..., device driver suggestion and action need root to touch the system
configuration file, like /etc/power.conf ......

-Aubrey