Request auto connection for rt-conf snap interfaces

store-requests privileged-interfaces
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rt-conf is an application developed under CANONICAL by the Industrial-team, packaged and distributed as a snap. This is designed to be a real-time configuration helper tool.

  • name: rt-conf
  • description: This tool allows tuning Real-Time Ubuntu via a configuration file and a simple command line interface
  • snapcraft: rt-conf/snap/snapcraft.yaml at main · canonical/rt-conf · GitHub
  • upstream: https://github.com/canonical/rt-conf
  • upstream-relation: Publisher is the upstream
  • interfaces:
    • cpu-control:
      • request-type: auto-connection
      • reasoning: One of the features provided by rt-conf is the possibility to tune the IRQ affinity settings in a non-persistent way. This is an operation that requires access to some procfs and sysfs directories, which cpu-control can give this access, as can be seeing here.
    • system-files:
      • Plug name: etc-default-grub - This is for classic systems only.
        • read: /etc/default/grub
        • write: /etc/default/grub.d/60_rt-conf.cfg
      • request-type: connection
      • reasoning: This is necessary to set some kernel command line arguments used to enhance real-time capabilities. All possibilities are listed in the configuration file of rt-conf: config.yaml.
    • hardware-observe:
      • request-type: auto-connection
      • reasoning: This interface is used to have read access to the file /proc/device-tree/model which is grant by hardware-observe on this rule. The read access to this file is used to identify the type of hardware which rt-conf is running on.
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This request has been added to the queue for review by the @reviewers team.

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Thanks for formulating the request @LOCNNIL. The plug name is misleading. It should be etc-default-grub to serve as the common denominator of the two paths.

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@jslarraz, the request has been updated to mention that the system-files interface plug to read: /etc/default/grub and write: /etc/default/grub.d/60_rt-conf.cfg is for classic systems only.

For Ubuntu Core, the tool uses snap options, but that is experimental and beyond the scope of this request.

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Hey folks, thanks for your patience.

Limiting the system-files interface to manual connection only on classic systems makes the request totally reasonable to me. Thus +1 from me for granting the requested permissions (#voteFor).

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+1 (#voteFor) from me as well for granting these interfaces as they fit the purpose of the snap

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Voting period has ended. This request is approved with 2 votes for and 0 votes against.

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The publisher is vetted. This is now live. It should pass automatic review after renaming the system-files plug to etc-default-grub as discussed

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