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From: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig:  Allow disabling of CONFIG_DEVPORT
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:34:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310675693-9204-1-git-send-email-mikew@google.com> (raw)

It would be useful to build kernels with disabled support of /dev/port
for systems where we do not want to allow an administrator to access IO
ports directly.

To do so however, CONFIG_DEVPORT needs to be user-selectable.  Give this
configuration option a name and help description.

Google-Bug-Id: 3177114
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
---
 drivers/char/Kconfig |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 49502bc..12503f1 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -593,10 +593,15 @@ config TELCLOCK
 	  controlling the behavior of this hardware.
 
 config DEVPORT
-	bool
+	bool "Support for /dev/port"
 	depends on !M68K
 	depends on ISA || PCI
 	default y
+	help
+	  Enabling this option allows for access to the /dev/port
+	  character device.  This device maps IO ports onto a file
+	  interface, so that users with sufficient privilege can read
+	  and write to IO ports directly.  If unsure, say yes.
 
 source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig"
 
-- 
1.7.3.1


             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-14 20:34 Mike Waychison [this message]
2011-07-14 20:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Allow disabling of sys_iopl, sys_ioperm Mike Waychison
2011-07-14 20:37   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-14 20:38     ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-14 20:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-18 14:35         ` Jiri Kosina
2011-07-14 22:31   ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-14 22:35     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-14 22:40       ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-14 22:45         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-14 23:03           ` Alan Cox
2011-07-14 23:04         ` Alan Cox
2011-07-20 19:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-14 22:42   ` Alan Cox
2011-07-14 22:48     ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-14 23:00       ` Alan Cox
2011-07-14 23:20         ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-14 23:39           ` Alan Cox
2011-07-15  0:48             ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-15  9:55               ` Alan Cox
2011-07-15 18:13               ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-15 18:14                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-15 22:30                   ` Andrew G. Morgan
2011-07-15 22:42                     ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-17 23:19                       ` Eric Paris
2011-07-18  0:04                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-14 21:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: Allow disabling of CONFIG_DEVPORT Greg KH
2011-07-14 22:17   ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-15  6:41     ` Greg KH
2011-07-15 13:13       ` Theodore Tso
2011-07-15 14:51         ` Greg KH
2011-07-15 14:58           ` Alan Cox
2011-07-15 15:19             ` Greg KH
2011-07-15 16:45               ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-15 17:01                 ` Greg KH
2011-07-15 17:51                   ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-15 18:10                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-15 18:50             ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-15 18:55           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-07-16  7:56             ` Greg KH
2011-07-16 13:05               ` Ted Ts'o
2011-07-16 16:38                 ` Christoph Hellwig

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