From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:29:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006162914.4f140938@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081006075738.318a983f@infradead.org>
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:57:38 -0700
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > For debug tools that would be almost all drivers, and for distribution
> > use that needs to be a runtime selection.
>
> is boottime (read: kernel parameter) ok ?
> it would totally make sense to have a kernel boot parameter that
> disables all /dev/mem sanity checks.
A boot parameter probably catches most cases yes.
> that's a hard case but probably not the most interesting case; drivers
> get loaded early thankfully.
> (yes revoke is hard ;( )
Yeah .. I was hoping you'd write it ;)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-06 1:01 Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06 5:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-06 5:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06 9:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-06 13:40 ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-10-06 13:48 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-06 13:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06 14:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-06 14:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-06 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-06 14:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-06 15:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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