From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262351AbUENTmW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 15:42:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262356AbUENTmW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 15:42:22 -0400 Received: from sitemail2.everyone.net ([216.200.145.36]:41180 "EHLO omta08.mta.everyone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262351AbUENTmV (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 15:42:21 -0400 X-Eon-Sig: AQHOS7NApSEcGUGZQQIAAAAF,6ba807ae4e9fd6e0b49204bf65440383 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:42:17 -0400 From: "Kevin O'Connor" To: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Wright , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm2 Message-ID: <20040514194217.GA6682@ohio.localdomain> References: <20040513032736.40651f8e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513114520.A8442@infradead.org> <20040513035134.2e9013ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513121850.B22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20040513123809.01398f93.akpm@osdl.org> <20040514190642.GA6333@ohio.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040514190642.GA6333@ohio.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a reply to my own message. On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:06:42PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:38:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mask, "Mask of capability checks to ignore"); > > > > Is there a way to make this tunable at runtime, btw? > > I thought that was what the fourth argument to module_param_named was for.. [...] > Did I miss something? It would significantly limit the usefulness of capabilities if root could arbitrarily clear them. I think I answered my own question. Sorry for the traffic, -Kevin