Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:57:38 -0700
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ;)
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