Code review comment for lp:~albertomilone/gdm/lp1697882

> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 06:41:32PM -0000, Alberto Milone wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I have just checked, and we no longer have root privileges by
> the time can_create_environment() is called.
>
> Ok, that's annoying - I don't suppose it's possible to grab this value
> before privileges are dropped and pass it around?
>

I'm not sure about that. It's probably easier to use the current udev rule, that the nvidia packages ship, to check the value when the module is loaded, and to write it somewhere in /run, so that GDM can read it later.

What do you think?